1580 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• The Concerto delle donne is founded by Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara.
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina loses his wife in an outbreak of plague.

Popular Music

• First recorded appearance of the English ballad Greensleeves.

Publications

• Luca Marenzio – First book of madrigals a5
• Johann Wanning – Sacrae Cantiones quinque, sex, septem et octo voces compositae, et tum vivae voces, tum musicis instrumentis aptatae (first part of first cycle of sacred de tempore motets)

Births

• July 6 – Johann Stobäus, German composer (d. 1646)
• date unknown – Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, German-Italian performer and composer of lute, theorbo and chitarrone music (d. 1651)
• probable
  • Michael East, English organist and composer (d. 1648)
  • Thomas Ford, English composer (d. 1648)

Deaths

• January 18 – Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (b. 1517)
• April 1 – Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer and vihuelist (b. c.1510)
• September 15 – Geert van Turnhout, Flemish composer (b. c.1530)
• November 30 – Richard Farrant, English composer of church music, choirmaster, playwright and theatrical producer (b. c.1530)