1578 in music



Events 
 Autumn – Pope Gregory XIII's plans for a corrected edition of the Graduale Romanum is abandoned due to lack of funds.
Bernardino Bertolotti becomes a court musician of the Este family at Ferrara.

Publications 
 Il primo libro de' balli by Giorgio Mainerio is published in Venice

Classical music 
Jan Trojan Turnovský – Missa super Jerusalem cito veniet

Opera 
 (probably because opera had not yet been invented)

Births 
December 2 – Agostino Agazzari, Sienese composer (died 1640)

Deaths 
probable – Francesco Portinaro, composer and humanist (born c.1520)

References

Music
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