1530s in music explained
The decade of the
1530s in music (years 1530–1539) involved some significant events, publications, compositions, births, and deaths.
Events
- 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
1530
- 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
- Carpentras
- First book of masses (Avignon: Jean de Channay)
- Lamentations for five voices (Avignon: Jean de Channay)
- Hans Gerle – German: 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
- 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
1535
1536
1537
1538
- Luis de Narváez – Spanish; Castilian: Los seys libros del Delphin (Valladolid: Diego Hernandez), a large collection of lute music
- Philippe Verdelot – Italian: Le dotte, et eccellente compositioni...
- German: Ein Hubsch new Gesangbuch, the first Protestant hymn-book, published in Ulm.
1539
- 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
1530
- We-Liang-Hu composed music for a play by 14th-century poet Gao Ming.
Sacred music
1533
1539
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 1534: Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (d. 1590)
- 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)
- 1536: Zhu Zaiyu, Chinese prince, music theorist, scholar and writer (d. 1611)
- 1537: Johann Wanning, Dutch-born composer, kapellmeister and alto singer (d. 1603)
- 1538 Stefano Felis, Italian composer, singer and choirmaster (d. 1603)
- 1539
Deaths
- 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:
- c.1535:
- 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:
- 1539:
Notes and References
- Book: David Mason Greene. Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. 1985. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.. 978-0-385-14278-6. 39.
- Book: David Russell Williams. C. Matthew Balensuela. Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino: A Bibliography and Guide. 2007. Pendragon Press. 978-1-57647-157-9. 106.
- Missa da Pacem in IMSLP http://www.imslp.org/wiki/Missa_Da_pacem_(Bauldeweyn,_Noel)
- 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).
- Book: Journal of the American Musicological Society. 1960. American Musicological Society. 112.
- Book: David Mason Greene. Constance Green. Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. 1985. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.. 978-0-385-14278-6. 62.
- Book: Early Music Review. 1998. King's Music. 3.
- Book: Musical Heritage Review. 1990. Paganiniana Publications, Incorporated. 12.
- Book: Max Reinhart. James N. Hardin. German Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, 1280–1580. registration. 1997. Gale Research. 978-0-7876-1068-5. 260.
- Book: Barrie Jones. The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music. 1999. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-57958-178-7. 56.
- Book: Antonius Divitis. Collected works. 1 January 1993. A-R Editions, Inc.. 978-0-89579-281-5. 15.
- Book: Friedrich Blume. Ludwig Finscher. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. 2000. Bärenreiter. 978-3-7618-1114-6. 697. de.
- Book: Studien Zur Italienisch-deutschen Musikgeschichte. 1967. A. Volk. 47. de.