1565 in music

Events

• Costanzo Porta is employed in Padua.
• Gioseffo Zarlino replaces Cipriano de Rore as maestro di cappella at St Mark's, Venice.
• Pietro Taglia is recorded as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria presso San Celso, Milan.
• Girolamo Cavazzoni supervises the building of the organ at the court church of St Barbara in Mantua.

Publications

• Cipriano de Rore – Le vive fiamme

Classical music

• Pietro Taglia - first book of madrigals

Births

• August 5 - Paola Massarenghi, Italian composer
• date unknown
  • Antonio il Verso, Italian composer (died 1641)
  • Erasmo Marotta, Sicilian Jesuit composer (died 1621)
  • Pedro Ruimonte, Spanish composer and musician (died 1627)
• probable
  • Gregor Aichinger, German composer (died 1628)
  • Michael Cavendish, English court composer (died 1628)
  • Carlo Gesualdo (c.1565/1566), Prince of Venosa, madrigalist, composer of church music (d. 1613)
  • Sir William Leighton, composer and publisher (died 1622)
  • Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (died 1646)
  • Francis Pilkington, composer, lutenist and singer (died 1638)

Deaths

• August - Jacques Buus, organist and composer (born 1500)
• mid-September – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer, primarily of Italian madrigals (born 1515/1516)
• date unknown - David Köler, German composer (born c.1532)