Events Claude Le Jeune comes to Paris and begins to associate with Huguenots. Richard Farrant is appointed master of the children of St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
Publications Paolo Aretino – First and second books of responsories for Holy Week (Venice: Francesco Rampazetto) Bálint Bakfark – First book of lute tablature (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), contains "several fantasies, motets, chansons, and madrigals" by various composers Simon Boyleau – Madrigals for four, five, six, seven, and eight voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni) Gioseppe Caimo – First book of madrigals for four voices (Milan: Francesco Moscheni) Claude Goudimel – for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard), homophonic harmonizations of the melodies from the 1551 edition of the Genevan Psalter Philibert Jambe de Fer – (Lyon: Antoine de Cercia & Pierre de Mia) Orlande de Lassus First book of motets for five and six voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Fourth book of chansons for four and five voices (Louvain: Pierre Phalèse) Claude Le Jeune – 10 for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard) Francisco Leontaritis – First book of motets for six voices (Venice: Francesco Rampazetto) Giovanni Domenico da Nola – Second book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Valerio Salviano & fratelli) Johannes Pacoloni – Tribus testudinibus ludenda carmina Annibale Padovano – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Gioan Paien – First book of madrigals for two voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — First book of Motets for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
Classical music Philibert Jambe de Fer – Music for the arrival of King Charles IX of France
Births October 26 – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (d. 1612) date unknown – Kryštof Harant, nobleman, traveller, humanist, soldier, writer and composer (d. 1621)
Deaths October 5 – Pierre de Manchicourt, composer of the Franco-Flemish School (b. c. 1510) date unknown Jacques Brunel, organist and composer Purandara Dasa, composer of Carnatic music (b. 1484)
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