1563 in music

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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.

Giovanni Animuccia – First book of laudi (Rome: Valerio Dorico)
Severin Cornet – Canzoni napolitane for four voices (Antwerp: Jean Laet)
Gallus Dressler – Praecepta musicae poeticae (MS)
Giulio Fiesco – Madrigals for four and five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), also includes four dialogues, two for seven voice and two for eight voices
Vincenzo Galilei – First book of intavolature de lauto (Rome: Valerio Dorico), a collection of lute music, including madrigals and ricercars, by various composers
Francisco Guerrero – Magnificats in all eight tones (Leuven: Pierre Phalèse)
Orlande de Lassus – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Rome: Antonio Barré)
Nicolaus Listenius – Rudimenta Musicae Planae
Francesco Portinaro – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)

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

February 2 – Hans Neusidler, composer (b. c. 1508)
August 11 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, composer (b. c. 1515)
date unknown
- Thomas Appleby, church musician and composer (b. c. 1488)
- Francesco Cellavenia, composer
- Francisco de Soto, organist and composer (b. c. 1500)
- Thomas Preston, organist and composer