1530s in music

The decade of the 1530s in music 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 until his death in 1591.

Publications

1530

Madrigali de diversi musici: libro primo de la Serena. 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
*Lamentations for five voices
Hans Gerle – Musica Teusch, 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, 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
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, 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, the most reprinted madrigal book of the sixteenth century
*Second book of madrigals for four voices
*Third book of madrigals for four voices
*Fourth book of madrigals for four voices
Noel Bauldeweyn – Missa da Pacem. 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
Georg Forster – First volume of his 'Fresh German Songs' published in Nuremberg
Nicolas Gombert
*First book of motets for four voices
*First book of motets for five voices
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
*First book of motets for four voices
Pierre de Manchicourt – Book 14: 19 Motets for four voices, 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
c.1530: Guillaume Costeley, French composer and organist
1530: Teodora Ginés, Dominican musician and composer
1531: Ercole Bottrigari, Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect and composer
c.1520/31: Guillaume Costeley, French composer
c.1531/32: Jacobus de Kerle, Flemish composer, organist, choirmaster and priest
1532: Hernando Franco, Spanish composer and choirmaster. The earliest known composer of music in Guatemala
*December 5 – Nikolaus Selnecker, German theologian, hymn-writer, organist and cleric
*February 19 – Jean-Antonie de Baif, French poet, co-founder of the Academie de Poesie et de Musique in Paris
*January 21 – Ludwig Hembold, German poet and hymn writer
*March 25 – Pietro Pontio, Italian theorist and composer
*date unknown – Giammateo Asola, Italian composer
*probable – Orlando de Lassus aka Roland de Latre, Franco-Flemish composer of late Renaissance music
Adam Puschmann, German poet, songwriter and Meistersinger
c.1532 David Koler, German composer and Kapellmeister
c. 1530–40: Giorgio Mainerio, Italian composer
1533:
c.1533 Laurent de Vos, Flemish composer, singer and musician
October 16 – Gallus Dressler, German composer, theorist and cantor.
*April 8 – Claudio Merulo, Italian organist, composer and publisher
*date unknown - Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer and organist
1534: Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer
*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.
*Fernando de Las Infantas, Spanish composer, theologian, priest and philanthropist. Born Cordoba.
c.1534 Christian Ameyden, Flemish composer, tenor and choirmaster. Born Aerschot, Belgium.
1535 Annibale Stabile, Italian composer, singer, choirmaster and priest. Born Naples.
* c.1535
* c.1535 Cesare Negri, Italian dancing master
*c.1535 Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer, teacher and choirmaster.
*Antoine de Bertrand, French composer
*Bernhard Schmid the Elder, German organist and music editor
*Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer of Italian madrigals
*probable – Innocentio Alberti, Italian instrumentalist and composer
1536: Zhu Zaiyu, Chinese prince, music theorist, scholar and writer
* Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer, viol player and diplomat
1537: Johann Wanning, Dutch-born composer, kapellmeister and alto singer
* Annibale Zoilo, Italian composer, singer and choirmaster
1538 Stefano Felis, Italian composer, singer and choirmaster
*c.1538 Johannes Matelart, Flemish composer and choirmaster
*c.1538 Robert White, English composer and choirmaster
1539
*December 20 – Paulus Melissus, writer and composer
*c.1539 Paschal de L'Estocart, French composer
*c.1539 Ippolito Tartaglino, Italian composer

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.1535:
*Pedro de Escobar.
*Bartolomeo Tromboncino.
1536:
*May 17 – Mark Smeaton, English court musician
*June 26 – Pierre Alamire, German-Dutch music copyist, composer, instrumentalist, mining engineer, merchant, diplomat and spy
1537: Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian composer and organist.
1538:
*March – Hans Buchner, organist and composer.
*October – Maistre Jhan, composer
*Richard Davy, composer.
1539:
*December 12 – Bartolomeo degli Organi, composer, singer and organist.
*December 20 – Johannes Lupi, composer
*Ottaviano Petrucci – printer and publisher
*c.1539 Andrea Antico – publisher, editor and composer
*c.1539 Dionisio Memmo – Italian organist and choirmaster. Worked in the court of Henry VIII