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1530s in music

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The decade of the 1530s in music (years 1530-1539) involved some significant compositions.

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Events

  • 1532: Thomas Tallis takes his first known musical appointment, as organist at Dover Priory.
  • 1538: Tallis moves from Dover to Waltham Abbey.

    • 1532

  • Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi, first installment, important treatise on singing

    • 1535

  • Philippe Verdelot – First book of madrigals a5.

    • 1536

  • Hans Neusidler – Two books of lute music, Ein newgeordent künstlich Lautenbuch and Der ander Theil des Lautenbuchs.
  • Philippe Verdelot – Second book of madrigals a4.

    • 1537

  • Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi, second installment, important treatise on singing

    • 1538

  • Maddalena Casulana – First book of madrigals for Four Voices, published in Venice. It is the first printed book of music by a woman in history.
  • Luis de Narváez – Los seys libros del Delphin, a large collection of lute music
  • Philippe Verdelot – Second book of madrigals a5, and Le dotte, et eccellente compositioni....
  • Ein Hubsch new Gesangbuch, the first Protestant hymn-book, published in Ulm.

    • 1539

  • Jacques Arcadelt – First book of madrigals a4.

    • 1530

  • We-Liang-Hu composed music for a play by 14th-century poet Gao-Ming.

    • Births

  • 1530: Teodora Ginés, Dominican musician and composer (died 1598)
  • 1531: Ercole Bottrigari, Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect and composer (died 1612)
  • 1532:
  • March 25 - Pietro Pontio, Italian theorist and composer (died 1596)
  • date unknown - Giammateo Asola, Italian composer (died 1609)
  • probable – Orlando de Lassus aka Roland de Latre, Franco-Flemish composer of late Renaissance music (died 1594)
  • c. 1530-40: Giorgio Mainerio, Italian composer (died 1582)
  • 1533: Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer and organist (died 1586)
  • 1534: Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (died 1590)
  • 1535
  • Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer of Italian madrigals (died 1596)
  • probable – Innocentio Alberti, Italian instrumentalist and composer (died 1615)
  • 1537: Johann Wanning, Dutch-born composer, kapellmeister and alto singer (died 1603)
  • 1539
  • December 20 – Paulus Melissus, writer and composer (died 1602)

    • Deaths

  • 1536:
  • May 17 - Mark Smeaton, English court musician, executed for alleged adultery with Anne Boleyn (born 1512)
  • June 26 - Pierre Alamire, German-Dutch music copyist, composer, instrumentalist, mining engineer, merchant, diplomat and spy (born 1470)
  • 1537: Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian composer and organist (born 1459)
  • 1538:
  • March – Hans Buchner, organist and composer, 54
  • October – Maistre Jhan, composer (born c.1485)
  • 1539:
  • December 12 - Bartolomeo degli Organi, composer, singer and organist, 64
  • December 20 - Johannes Lupi, composer (born c.1506)

    • References

    1530s in music Wikipedia
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