1470s in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the 1470s.
Events
[edit]- 1470
- 5 August – Guillaume Du Fay purchases some land in his homeland of Beersel to provide an income to establish his obiit.[1]
- October – Antoine Busnois first becomes a member of the Burgundian chapel as a demi-chappelain (he would be promoted to full chaplain in 1472).[2]
- November – Antoine Busnois is paid for "services … of which the duke [of Burgundy] wished no further mention to be made in the accounts"—probably a delicate diplomatic mission recruiting new musicians from another court.[2]
- Blind organist, harpist, lutenist, and fiddle player Conrad Paumann tours Italy, where his playing on various instruments causes a sensation at the court of the Gonzagas in Mantua.[3]
- 1471
- After fifteen years in the humble position of clerc in the Burgundian court chapel, Robert Morton is promoted to chappelain, a position in which he would remain until early 1476.[4]
- 1475 – Organ builder Lorenzo da Prato completes his masterpiece, the organ in cornu Epistolae of the San Petronio Basilica in Bologna.[5]
Bands formed
[edit]- 1479 – The Gosudarevï Pevchiye d′Yaki (literally Ruler’s Singing Clerks, the court choir of Moscow), is established by Ivan the Great.[6]
Publications
[edit]- 1470 – Approximate date of the completion of the Buxheim Organ Book
- 1471 – Professional scribe Clara Hätzlerin completes her Liederbuch in Augsburg.[7]
- ca. 1473 – The Königsteiner Liederbuch is completed.
- 1475 – Johannes Tinctoris, Terminorum musicae diffinitorium, compiled by this year.
- 1476 – Johannes Tinctoris, Liber de natura et proprietate tonorum, completed 6 November.
- 1477 – Johannes Tinctoris, Liber de arte contrapuncti, completed 11 October.
Compositions
[edit]- 1470 – Guillaume Du Fay, Requiem Mass, for three voices (lost)
- ca.1470–73 – Guillaume Du Fay, Missa Ave Regina Celorum
- 1472 – Loyset Compère, Omnium bonorum plena, motet, possibly written for the dedication of Cambrai Cathedral on 2 July.
- 1473 – Johannes Martini, Perfunde coeli rore, motet in four voices, composed for the wedding of Duke Ercole I d'Este and Eleonora d'Aragona[8]
- ca. 1476 – Alexander Agricola, Gaudent in celis, motet
Births
[edit]- 1470
- 9 April – Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa, Italian lutenist, singer, and teacher (d. December 1530)
- Approximately this year
- Elzéar Genet, dit Carpentras, French composer (d. 1548)
- Antoine de Févin, French composer (d. 1511 or 1512)
- Mathurin Forestier, French composer
- Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer (d. 1528)
- Michele Pesenti, Italian composer and lutenist (d. after 1524)
- Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Italian composer of frottole (d. after 1535)
Deaths
[edit]- 1470
- 25 February – Richard de Bellengues, dit Cardot, French singer and composer (b. ca. 1380)
- 1473
- 24 January – Conrad Paumann, German organist, harpist, lutenist, fiddle player, and composer (b. ca.1410)
- 1474
- 27 November – Guillaume Du Fay, French composer (b. ca. 1397; illness)
- 1479
- After 13 March – Robert Morton (composer) (b. ca. 1430)
References
[edit]- ^ Alejandro Enrique Planchart, "Du Fay [Dufay; Du Fayt], Guillaume", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ^ a b Paula Higgins, "Busnoys [Busnois, Bunoys, de Busnes], Antoine [Antonius]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ^ Christoph Wolff, "Paumann, Conrad", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ^ David Fallows, "Morton [Mourton, Moriton], Robert", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ^ Umberto Pineschi, "Prato, Lorenzo (di Jacopo) da", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ^ Lyudmila Kovnatskaya, "St Petersburg", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ^ Adolf Layer and Friedhelm Brusniak, "Augsburg", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ^ Lewis Lockwood, Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400–1505: The Creation of a Musical Center in the Fifteenth Century (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009): 287. ISBN 978-0-19-970300-5