1520s in music

The decade of the 1520s in music involved some significant events, compositions, publications, births, and deaths.

Events

7–24 June 1520: Field of the Cloth of Gold held at Balinghem. The court musical establishments of Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England were led by Jean Mouton and William Cornysh, respectively.
1521: Diet of Worms. The composer Ludwig Senfl is present.
1526: Kungliga Hovkapellet is first recorded from this year.

1520:
*The manuscript Capirola Lutebook is compiled from the works of Vincenzo Capirola
*Bernardo Pisano, Musica di messer Bernardo Pisano sopra le canzone del Petrarcha, the first printed collection of secular music by a single composer, published by Ottaviano Petrucci in Fossombrone.
*The Liber selectarum cantionum is printed in Augsburg in the print-shop of Sigmund Grimm and Markus Wirsung. The music is compiled by Ludwig Senfl who includes compositions of his own like his riddle canon Salve sancta parens.
1523: Pietro Aron – Thoscanello de la musica, including the first description of quarter-comma meantone, published in Venice.
1528:
*Pierre Attaingnant – Chansons nouvelles en musique à quatre parties, the first French music publication made using single-impression movable type, published in Paris.
*Clément Janequin – Chansons
1529: Martin Agricola – Musica instrumentalis deudsch, a description of the musical instruments common in Germany at the time.

Andrea Amati, Italian violin maker, who stands as the first of the Cremona school
Christoph Fischer or Vischer, hymnist
Vincenzo Galilei, lutenist who also composed other music

March 4 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Roman composer, primarily of sacred music
March 25 – Richard Edwardes, English choral musician, playwright and poet

probable – Jacobus Vaet, Franco-Flemish composer