1560 in music
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Events
- Innocentio Alberti takes up a position at the Este court in Ferrara, following the dissolution of the Accademia degli Elevati.
Publications
- none listed
Births
- January 29 - Scipione Dentice, keyboard composer (died 1633)
- August 10 – Hieronymus Praetorius, north German composer and organist (died 1629)
- date unknown
- William Brade, German composer of dance forms of the period (died 1630)
- Antonio Coma, Italian composer (died 1629)
- Peter Philips (c.1560/1561), eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest (died 1628), the most published English composer in his time.
- probable
- Giovanni Croce, Venetian composer (died 1609)
- Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (died 1627)
Deaths
- date unknown - Louis Bourgeois, composer of Calvinist hymn-tunes (born c.1510)
- probable
- Marco Antonio Cavazzoni, organist and composer (born c.1490)
- Nicolas Gombert, composer (born c.1495)
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