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{{Year nav topic5|1568|music}} Events - Philippe de Monte becomes Kapellmeister for the Habsburg Emperor Maximilian II.
- Second recorded Eisteddfod, at Caerwys in Wales.
- Antonio Scandello becomes Kapellmeister at the court of the Electors of Saxony in Dresden.
- Girolamo Dalla Casa and his two brothers are hired as musicians at St Mark's Basilica, Venice.
Publications - Cipriano de Rore –
- Gli amorosi concenti, a posthumous collection of madrigals
- Il quinto libro de madrigali, posthumous second, expanded edition (first edition: 1566)
- Vincenzo Galilei – Fronimo Dialogo (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), an instructional book for playing, composing and arranging vocal music for lute.
Classical music {{Empty section|date=July 2010}} Births - February 29 – Juan Bautista Comes, composer (died 1643)
- September 3 – Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (died 1634)
- date unknown – Christian Erbach, organist and composer (died 1635)
Deaths - June 5 – Lamoral, Count of Egmont, subject of Goethe's play and Beethoven's overture (born 1522; executed)
- October 14 – Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer (born 1514/1515)
- November 12 – Georg Forster, composer (born 1510)
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