The decade of the 1510s in music (years 1510–1519) involved some significant events.
Events
- 1513: Jacques Champion replaces Noel Bauldeweyn as magister cantorum at St Rombouts, Mechelen.[1]
- 1517:
- March – Heinrich Finck sends greetings from Mühldorf, Bavaria, to the humanist Joachim Vadian.[2]
- April 15 – Juan García de Basurto is hired as a singer by the cathedral chapter of Tarazona, at an annual salary of 1200 sueldos.[3]
- June – Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego joins the pifferi of the Venetian government as a "contralto".[4]
- Sixt Dietrich is forced to leave Freiburg because of debts, but in November is appointed informator choralium by the cathedral chapter in Konstanz.[5]
- 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 (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci)
- 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 (Fossombrone: Ottaviano Petrucci), also includes one mass by Pierre de la Rue (Quarti toni)
- 1517:
- Andreas Ornithoparchus – Musicae activae micrologus (Leipzig).
- Sebastian z Felsztyna – Opusculum musicae compilatum (Kraków: Johann Haller).
- 1518:
- The Medici Codex (manuscript)
- 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.[citation needed]
- 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 (died 1565)
- Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance (died 1566)
- probable – Loys Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes (died c.1561)
- probable – Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola, Neapolitan composer, famous for his villanescas and villanellas in the Neapolitan style (died 1592)
1511
- date unknown – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (died 1575/1576)
1513
- February 14 – Domenico Ferrabosco, Italian composer and singer (died 1574)
- May 16 – Antonfrancesco Doni, Italian writer, academic and musician (died 1574)
1516
- probable – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer (died 1565)
1517
- January 17 – Antonio Scandello, Italian composer and instrumentalist
- January 31 or March 22 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Venetian theorist (died 1590)
Deaths
- 1513: January – Hans Folz, German Meistersinger, barber, and surgeon (born ?before 1440)
- 1517: March 26 – Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1445)
References
- ^ Edgar H. Sparks and Bernadette Nelson, "Bauldeweyn [Balbun, Balduin, Bauldewijn, Baulduin, Baulduvin, Valdovin], Noel [Noe, Natalis]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ^ Lothar Hoffmann-Erbrecht, "Finck, Heinrich", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ^ Robert Stevenson, "García de Basurto, Juan", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ^ Howard Mayer Brown and Giulio Ongaro, "Ganassi dal Fontego, Sylvestro di", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ^ Manfred Schuler, "Dietrich [Dieterich, Theodericus, Theodorici], Sixt [Sixtus, Xistus]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).