1582 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Publications

• Piae Cantiones (collection of late medieval Latin songs)

Classical music

• Lodovico Agostini – Third book of madrigals, for six voices
• Vittorio Baldini - Il lauro secco (anthology of madrigals)
• Claudio Monteverdi – Sacrae Cantiunculae (Little Sacred Songs)

Births

• May 1 - Marco da Gagliano, composer (d. 1643)
• June 26 - Johannes Schultz, composer (d. 1653)
• December 23 - Severo Bonini, organist, composer and music writer (d. 1663)
• date unknown
  • Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (d. 1652)
  • Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (d. 1629)

Deaths

• March - Severin Cornet, Franco-Flemish singer, conductor and composer (born c.1530)
• May 3 or 4 – Giorgio Mainerio, Italian composer (born 1530/40)
• July 14 - Johannes de Cleve, composer at the court of Ferdinand I and Charles II (born c.1529)
• date unknown
  • Leonora Sanvitale, Italian courtier and singer (born c.1558)
  • Pere Alberch Vila, organist and composer (born 1517)