1530s in music
# 1530s in music

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.
* 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 – Musica Teusch (Nuremberg: Hieronymous Formschneider), an instructional book for playing and arranging for the viola, rebec, and lute
* Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi: Rudimenta, 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

* Philippe Verdelot – Second book of madrigals for four voices, published by Scotto in Venice

### 1535

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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 $1539^2).$ Published under the name of Josquin des Prez.
* 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

* 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

* Johannes Heugel – Consolamini, popule meus, for eight voices, probably the earliest German composition for double choir
* Costanzo Festa – Hyntni per totum annum

## Births

* c.1530: Juan Navarro, Spanish composer.
* c.1530: Nicolas de La Grotte, French composer and keyboard player.
* c.1530: Richard Farrant, English composer of church music, choirmaster, playwright and theatre producer (d.1580)
* c.1530: Guillaume Costeley, French composer and organist (died 1606)
* 1530: Teodora Ginés, Dominican musician and composer (died 1598)
* 1531: Ercole Bottrigari, Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect and composer (died 1612)
* c.1520/31: Guillaume Costeley, French composer (died 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 (died 1598)
   * March 25 – Pietro Pontio, Italian theorist and composer (died 1596)
   * date unknown – Giammateo Asola, Italian composer (died 1609)
   * probable – Orlando de Lassus aka Roland de Latre, Franco-Flemish composer of late Renaissance music (died 1594)
* Adam Puschmann, German poet, songwriter and Meistersinger (died 1600)
* c.1532 David Koler, German composer and Kapellmeister (died 1565)
* c. 1530–40: Giorgio Mainerio, Italian composer (died 1582)
* 1533:
* c.1533 Laurent de Vos, Flemish composer, singer and musician. Murdered in Cambrai 1580.
* October 16 – Gallus Dressler, German composer, theorist and cantor. (died 1580s)
   * April 8 – Claudio Merulo, Italian organist, composer and publisher (died 1604)
   * date unknown - Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer and organist (died 1585)
* 1534: Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (died 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. (died 1604)
   * Fernando de Las Infantas, Spanish composer, theologian, priest and philanthropist. Born Cordoba. (died c.1610)
* c.1534 Christian Ameyden, Flemish composer, tenor and choirmaster. Born Aerschot, Belgium. (died 1605)
* 1535 Annibale Stabile, Italian composer, singer, choirmaster and priest. Born Naples. (died 1595)
   * c.1535
   * c.1535Cesare Negri, Italian dancing master (died c.1604)
   * c.1535Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer, teacher and choirmaster.
   * Antoine de Bertrand, French composer (killed 1581)
   * Bernhard Schmid the Elder, German organist and music editor (died 1592)
   * Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer of Italian madrigals (died 1596)
   * probable – Innocentio Alberti, Italian instrumentalist and composer (died 1615)
* 1536: Zhu Zaiyu, Chinese prince, music theorist, scholar and writer (died 1611)
   * Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer, viol player and diplomat (died 1592)
* 1537: Johann Wanning, Dutch-born composer, kapellmeister and alto singer (died 1603)
   * Annibale Zoilo, Italian composer, singer and choirmaster (died 1592)
* 1538 Stefano Felis, Italian composer, singer and choirmaster (died 1603)
   * c.1538 Johannes Matelart, Flemish composer and choirmaster (died 1607))
   * c.1538 Robert White, English composer and choirmaster (died 1574)
* 1539
   * December 20 – Paulus Melissus, writer and composer (died 1602)
   * c.1539 Paschal de L'Estocart, French composer (died c.1587)
   * c.1539 Ippolito Tartaglino, Italian composer (died c.1580)

## Deaths

* c.1530 Noel Bauldewijn, Flemish composer
* c.1530 Antonius Divitis, court composer of Louis XII of France
* 1533:
   * September 20 - Nicolas Champion, composer and singer, c.58
* c.1535:
   * Pedro de Escobar, c.70
   * Bartolomeo Tromboncino, c.65
* 1536:
   * May 17 – Mark Smeaton, English court musician, executed for alleged adultery with Anne Boleyn (born 1512)
   * June 26 – Pierre Alamire, German-Dutch music copyist, composer, instrumentalist, mining engineer, merchant, diplomat and spy (born 1470)
* 1537: Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian composer and organist (born 1459)
* 1538:
   * March – Hans Buchner, organist and composer, 54
   * October – Maistre Jhan, composer (born c.1485)
   * Richard Davy, composer (c.72), died in Exeter
* 1539:
   * December 12 – Bartolomeo degli Organi, composer, singer and organist, 64
   * December 20 – Johannes Lupi, composer (born c.1506)
   * Ottaviano Petrucci – printer and publisher
   * c.1539 Andrea Antico – publisher, editor and composer (c.59)
   * c.1539 Dionisio Memmo – Italian organist and choirmaster. Worked in the court of Henry VIII
