1470s in music

Events

• 1470
• *5 August – Guillaume Du Fay purchases some land in his homeland of Beersel to provide an income to establish his obiit.
• *October – Antoine Busnois first becomes a member of the Burgundian chapel as a demi-chappelain.
• *November – Antoine Busnois is paid for "services... of which the duke wished no further mention to be made in the accounts"—probably a delicate diplomatic mission recruiting new musicians from another court.
• *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.
• 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.
• 1475 – Organ builder Lorenzo da Prato completes his masterpiece, the organ in cornu Epistolae of the San Petronio Basilica in Bologna.

Bands formed

• 1479 – The Gosudarevï Pevchiye d′Yaki, is established by Ivan the Great.

Publications

• 1470 – Approximate date of the completion of the Buxheim Organ Book
• 1471 – Professional scribe Clara Hätzlerin completes her Liederbuch in Augsburg.
• 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

• 1470 – Guillaume Du Fay, Requiem Mass, for three voices
• 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
• ca. 1476 – Alexander Agricola, Gaudent in celis, motet

Births

• 1470
• *9 April – Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa, Italian lutenist, singer, and teacher
• *Approximately this year
• **Elzéar Genet, dit Carpentras, French composer
• **Antoine de Févin, French composer
• **Mathurin Forestier, French composer
• **Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer
• **Michele Pesenti, Italian composer and lutenist
• **Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Italian composer of frottole

Deaths

• 1470
• *25 February – Richard de Bellengues, dit Cardot, French singer and composer
• 1473
• *24 January – Conrad Paumann, German organist, harpist, lutenist, fiddle player, and composer
• 1474
• *27 November – Guillaume Du Fay, French composer
• 1479
• *After 13 March – Robert Morton (composer)