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The decade of the 1530s in music (years 1530–1539) involved some significant events, publications, compositions, births, and deaths.
Events
[edit]- 1532: Thomas Tallis takes his first known musical appointment, as organist at Dover Priory.[1]
- 1533: Claudin de Sermisy appointed a canon at Sainte-Chapelle in Paris
- 1534: Nicolas Gombert appointed a canon of Notre-Dame in Tournai
- 1535: Cristobal Morales joins the papal choir at St Peter's basilica, Rome
- 1536: Pierre Certon appointed Master of the Choristers at Sainte Chapelle in Paris.
- 1538: Tallis moves from Dover to Waltham Abbey.
- Thomas Appleby appointed organist and choirmaster at Lincoln Cathedral
- 1539: Joan Brudieu appointed maestro di capilla at la Seu d'Urgell Cathedral in Catalonia, a position he held until his death (bar a couple of gaps) until his death in 1591.
Publications
[edit]1530
[edit]- Madrigali de diversi musici: libro primo de la Serena (Rome: Valerio Dorico). The first book of madrigals to be identified by that name. The majority of pieces are by Philippe Verdelot.
1532
[edit]- Carpentras
- First book of masses (Avignon: Jean de Channay)
- Lamentations for five voices (Avignon: Jean de Channay)
- Hans Gerle – Musica Teusch (Nuremberg: Hieronymous Formschneider), an instructional book for playing and arranging for the viola, rebec, and lute
- Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi: Rudimenta,[2] first installment of an important treatise on singing
1533
[edit]- Hans Gerle - 2nd collection of lute music Tabulatur auff die Laudten published in Nuremberg. It included arrangements of pieces by Jean Mouton, Josquin and Jacob Obrecht
- Clement Janequin – Vingt et quatre chansons musicales...composes par maistre CL Janequin published by Pierre Attaignant in Paris
- Philippe Verdelot – First book of madrigals for four voices, published by Ottaviano Scotto in Venice
1534
[edit]- Philippe Verdelot – Second book of madrigals for four voices, published by Scotto in Venice
1535
[edit]- Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego – Opera intitulata Fontegara, a treatise on recorder playing, published in Venice
- Philippe Verdelot – First book of madrigals for five voices, published by Scotto in Venice
1536
[edit]- Sebastian z Felsztyna – treatise 'De Musica Dialogi VI'
- Luis de Milán – El Maestro (Valencia: Francisco Diaz Romano), the first collection of music for the vihuela
- Francesco da Milano – Five volumes of lute music published in Milan
- Hans Neusidler – Two books of lute music, Ein newgeordent künstlich Lautenbuch and Der ander Theil des Lautenbuchs.
1537
[edit]- Carpentras – August 25: Libro de canti a tre (Book of songs for three voices) (Rome: Valerio & Luigi Dorico)
- Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi, second installment, important treatise on singing
- Clement Janequin – Les Chansons de la Guerre, La Chasse, Le Chant des Oyseaux, L'Alouette, Le Rossignol, published by Pierre Attaignment in Paris
- Philippe Verdelot – Second book of madrigals for five voices published by Scotto in Venice
1538
[edit]- Luis de Narváez – Los seys libros del Delphin (Valladolid: Diego Hernandez), a large collection of lute music
- Philippe Verdelot – Le dotte, et eccellente compositioni...
- Ein Hubsch new Gesangbuch, the first Protestant hymn-book, published in Ulm.
1539
[edit]- Jacques Arcadelt
- First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), the most reprinted madrigal book of the sixteenth century
- Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Third book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Fourth book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
- Noel Bauldeweyn – Missa da Pacem (Nuremberg: Ott, RISM 15392). Published under the name of Josquin des Prez.[3]
- Jean Calvin – First edition of 'The Geneva Psalter'
- Alfonso dalla Viola – First book of madrigals for four voices (Ferrara: Henrico De Campis & Antonio Hucher for Giovanni De Buglhat)
- Georg Forster – First volume of his 'Fresh German Songs' published in Nuremberg
- Nicolas Gombert
- First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Paul Hofhaimer – collection of musical settings of the odes of Horace 'Harmoniae Poeticae', published in Nuremberg
- Jacquet of Mantua
- First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
- Pierre de Manchicourt – Book 14: 19 Motets for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant & Hubert Jullet), the last volume in Attaingnant's motet series and the only one dedicated to a single composer
Classical music
[edit]1530
[edit]- We-Liang-Hu composed music for a play by 14th-century poet Gao Ming.
Sacred music
[edit]1533
[edit]- Nicolas Gombert – Cuis colis Ausoniam, motet for six voices to a text by Nicolaus Grudius, celebrating the treaty signed in Bologna by Emperor Charles V, Pope Clement VII, and several other Italian rulers
1539
[edit]- Johannes Heugel – Consolamini, popule meus, for eight voices, probably the earliest German composition for double choir[4]
- Costanzo Festa – Hyntni per totum annum[5]
Births
[edit]- c.1530: Juan Navarro, Spanish composer (d. 1580)
- c.1530: Nicolas de La Grotte, French composer and keyboard player (d. c. 1600)
- c.1530: Richard Farrant, English composer of church music, choirmaster, playwright and theatre producer (d.1580)
- c.1530: Guillaume Costeley, French composer and organist (d. 1606)
- 1530: Teodora Ginés, Dominican musician and composer (d. 1598)
- 1531: Ercole Bottrigari, Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect and composer (d. 1612)
- c.1520/31: Guillaume Costeley, French composer (d. 1606)
- c.1531/32: Jacobus de Kerle, Flemish composer, organist, choirmaster and priest (d.1591)
- 1532: Hernando Franco, Spanish composer and choirmaster. The earliest known composer of music in Guatemala (d.1585)
- December 5 – Nikolaus Selnecker, German theologian, hymn-writer, organist and cleric (d.1592)
- February 19 – Jean-Antonie de Baif, French poet, co-founder of the Academie de Poesie et de Musique in Paris (d. 1589)
- January 21 – Ludwig Hembold, German poet and hymn writer (d. 1598)
- March 25 – Pietro Pontio, Italian theorist and composer (d. 1596)
- date unknown – Giammateo Asola, Italian composer (d. 1609)
- probable – Orlando de Lassus aka Roland de Latre, Franco-Flemish composer of late Renaissance music (d. 1594)
- Adam Puschmann, German poet, songwriter and Meistersinger (d. 1600)
- c.1532 David Koler, German composer and Kapellmeister (d. 1565)
- c. 1530–40: Giorgio Mainerio, Italian composer (d. 1582)
- 1533:
- c.1533 Laurent de Vos, Flemish composer, singer and musician (d. 1580)
- October 16 – Gallus Dressler, German composer, theorist and cantor. (d. 1580s)
- April 8 – Claudio Merulo, Italian organist, composer and publisher (d. 1604)[6]
- date unknown - Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer and organist (d. 1585)[7]
- 1534: Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (d. 1590)
- Giovanni De' Bardi, Italian writer, composer and soldier. Host and patron of the Florentine Camerata.
- Lucas Osiander, German Protestant theologian and hymn composer. Born Nuremberg. (d. 1604)
- Fernando de Las Infantas, Spanish composer, theologian, priest and philanthropist. Born Cordoba. (d. c. 1610)
- c.1534 Christian Ameyden, Flemish composer, tenor and choirmaster. Born Aerschot, Belgium. (d. 1605)
- 1535 Annibale Stabile, Italian composer, singer, choirmaster and priest. Born Naples. (d. 1595)
- c.1535
- c.1535 Cesare Negri, Italian dancing master (d. c. 1604)
- c.1535 Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer, teacher and choirmaster (d. 1592).
- Antoine de Bertrand, French composer (d. 1581)
- Bernhard Schmid the Elder, German organist and music editor (d. 1592)
- Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer of Italian madrigals (d. 1596)[8]
- probable – Innocentio Alberti, Italian instrumentalist and composer (d. 1615)
- 1536: Zhu Zaiyu, Chinese prince, music theorist, scholar and writer (d. 1611)
- Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer, viol player and diplomat (d. 1592)
- 1537: Johann Wanning, Dutch-born composer, kapellmeister and alto singer (d. 1603)
- Annibale Zoilo, Italian composer, singer and choirmaster (d. 1592)
- 1538 Stefano Felis, Italian composer, singer and choirmaster (d. 1603)
- c.1538 Johannes Matelart, Flemish composer and choirmaster (d. 1607)
- c.1538 Robert White, English composer and choirmaster (d. 1574)
- 1539
- December 20 – Paulus Melissus, writer and composer (d. 1602)[9]
- c.1539 Paschal de L'Estocart, French composer (d. c. 1587)
- c.1539 Ippolito Tartaglino, Italian composer (d. c. 1580)
Deaths
[edit]- c.1530 Noel Bauldewijn, Flemish composer (b. c. 1480).[10]
- c.1530 Antonius Divitis, court composer of Louis XII of France (b. 1470).[11]
- 1533:
- September 20 - Nicolas Champion, composer and singer, (b. c. 1475).[12]
- c.1535:
- Pedro de Escobar (b. 1465).
- Bartolomeo Tromboncino (b. 1470).
- 1536:
- May 17 – Mark Smeaton, English court musician (b. c. 1512; executed for alleged adultery with Anne Boleyn)
- June 26 – Pierre Alamire, German-Dutch music copyist, composer, instrumentalist, mining engineer, merchant, diplomat and spy (b. c. 1470)
- 1537: Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian composer and organist (b. 1459).
- 1538:
- March – Hans Buchner, organist and composer (b. 1483).
- October – Maistre Jhan, composer (b. c. 1485)
- Richard Davy, composer (b. c. 1465).
- 1539:
- December 12 – Bartolomeo degli Organi, composer, singer and organist (b. 1474).[13]
- December 20 – Johannes Lupi, composer (b. c. 1506; chronic illness)
- Ottaviano Petrucci – printer and publisher (b. 1466)
- c.1539 Andrea Antico – publisher, editor and composer (b. c. 1480)
- c.1539 Dionisio Memmo – Italian organist and choirmaster. Worked in the court of Henry VIII
References
[edit]- ^ David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
- ^ David Russell Williams; C. Matthew Balensuela (2007). Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino: A Bibliography and Guide. Pendragon Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-57647-157-9.
- ^ Missa da Pacem in IMSLP [1]
- ^ Wilfried Brennecke, "Heugel, Johannes", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ^ Journal of the American Musicological Society. American Musicological Society. 1960. p. 112.
- ^ David Mason Greene; Constance Green (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
- ^ Early Music Review. King's Music. 1998. p. 3.
- ^ Musical Heritage Review. Paganiniana Publications, Incorporated. 1990. p. 12.
- ^ Max Reinhart; James N. Hardin (1997). German Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, 1280–1580. Gale Research. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-7876-1068-5.
- ^ Barrie Jones (1999). The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music. Taylor & Francis. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-57958-178-7.
- ^ Antonius Divitis (1 January 1993). Collected works. A-R Editions, Inc. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-89579-281-5.
- ^ Friedrich Blume; Ludwig Finscher (2000). Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik (in German). Bärenreiter. p. 697. ISBN 978-3-7618-1114-6.
- ^ Studien Zur Italienisch-deutschen Musikgeschichte (in German). A. Volk. 1967. p. 47.