1460s in music

Events

• 22 February – Henry Abyngdon receives a Bachelor of Music at Cambridge, the first recorded musical degree

• May – Henry Abyngdon is appointed Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal in London
• September – Antoine Busnois is appointed master of the choirboys at Église Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand in Poitiers

• Antoine Busnois is employed at the court of Count Charles of Charolais before he becomes Duke of Burgundy

• Anna Inglese and her entourage are hired by Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan to devise and perform entertainments for his marriage to Bona of Savoy

Compositions

• May – Robert Morton writes the first known setting of L'homme armé

Manuscripts

• Wolfenbüttel Chansonnier, including compositions by Philippe Basiron

Births

• probable
• *William Cornysh, English composer

Deaths

• 20 September – Gilles Binchois, Burgundian composer

• date unknown
• *Nicolaus Zacharie, Italian composer