1510s in music
The decade of the 1510s in music involved some significant events.
Events
- 1513: Jacques Champion replaces Noel Bauldeweyn as magister cantorum at St Rombouts, Mechelen.
- 1517:
- * March – Heinrich Finck sends greetings from Mühldorf, Bavaria, to the humanist Joachim Vadian.
- * April 15 – Juan García de Basurto is hired as a singer by the cathedral chapter of Tarazona, at an annual salary of 1200 sueldos.
- * June – Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego joins the pifferi of the Venetian government as a "contralto".
- * Sixt Dietrich is forced to leave Freiburg because of debts, but in November is appointed Voice teacher by the cathedral chapter in Konstanz.
- 1518: Composer Ludwig Senfl loses a toe in a hunting accident.
Publications
- 1511:
- *Franciscus Bossinensis – Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto, Libro secundo
- *Arnolt Schlick – Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten, the first treatise on organ-making in German
- *Sebastian Virdung – Musica getutscht und angezogen, published in Basel, the first European treatise entirely devoted to the subject of musical instruments.
- 1512: Arnolt Schlick – Tabulaturen etlicher lobgesang, a collection of organ and lute pieces
- 1515: Antoine de Févin – Masses, also includes one mass by Pierre de la Rue
- 1517:
- * Andreas Ornithoparchus – Musicae activae micrologus.
- * Sebastian z Felsztyna – Opusculum musicae compilatum.
- 1518:
- *The Medici Codex
- *Franchinus Gaffurius – De harmonia musicorum instrumentorum opus. Milan.
Compositions
- 1510: Josquin des Prez assembles or composes Missa de Beata Virgine, a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, and it becomes the most popular of his masses in the 16th century.
- 1513: Heinrich Isaac – Optime pastor, motet celebrating the meeting in December of Maximilian I's Chancellor, Cardinal Lang, and the newly elected Pope Leo X
- 1514: Costanzo Festa – Quis dabit oculis, funeral ode for Anne of Brittany, Queen of France
- 1519: Adrian Willaert – Quid non ebrietas designat, setting of Horace's fifth epistle, for four voices
Births
1510
- Juan Bermudo, Spanish music theorist
- Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance probable – Loys Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes probable – Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola, Neapolitan composer, famous for his villanescas and villanellas in the Neapolitan style
1511
date unknown – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer1513
- February 14 – Domenico Ferrabosco, Italian composer and singer
- May 16 – Antonfrancesco Doni, Italian writer, academic and musician
1516
probable – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer1517
- January 17 – Antonio Scandello, Italian composer and instrumentalist
- January 31 or March 22 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Venetian theorist
Deaths
- 1513: January – Hans Folz, German Meistersinger, barber, and surgeon
- 1517: March 26 – Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer