1563 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• Mikołaj Gomółka leaves the Polish royal court for Kraków.
• Orlande de Lassus succeeding Ludwig Daser as maestro di cappella to Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria.
• Nicola Vicentino becomes maestro di cappella at Vicenza Cathedral.

Publications

• Gallus Dressler - Praecepta musicae poeticae (MS)
• Nicolaus Listenius - Rudimenta Musicae Planae

Classical music

• Antonino Barges - Two motets

Births

• date unknown
  • John Dowland, English Renaissance composer, singer and lutenist (died 1626)
  • Cornelis Verdonck, Flemish composer of madrigals (died 1625)
• approximate date
  • Giles Farnaby, English composer, perhaps from Truro, Cornwall (died 1640)
  • Andreas Raselius, German composer (died 1602)

Deaths

• February 2 - Hans Neusidler, composer (born c.1508)
• August 11 - Bartolomé de Escobedo, composer (born c.110)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Appleby, church musician and composer (born c.1488)
  • Francesco Cellavenia, composer
  • Francisco de Soto, organist and composer (born c.1500)
  • Thomas Preston, organist and composer