title: 1490s in music
text: # 1490s in music
  
  This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the 1490s.
  
  ## Events
  
  * 1490
     * January – Emperor Maximilian I writes a letter of recommendation for Jacobus Barbireau's visit to the Hungarian Court at Buda.
     * 24 October – Johannes Tinctoris petitions Pope Innocent VIII for the title and privileges of doctor of canon and civil law.
  * 1491 – After an extended legal disputation, the singer and composer Francisco de la Torre receives a half-prebendary at the Seville Cathedral.
  * 1498 – The Wiener Hofmusikkapelle, a forerunner of the Vienna Boys' Choir, is founded by Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
  
  ## Works
  
  * 1497 – Josquin des Prez – Nymphes des bois
  
  ## Births
  
  * 1490
     * 6 March – Fridolin Sicher, Swiss composer and organist (died 1546)
     * 12 October – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer, singer, and classical scholar (died 1548)
  * 1496 – Johann Walter, German composer (died 1570)
  * 1499 – Bernardino de Sahagún, Spanish composer (died 1571)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * November 6, 1492 – Antoine Busnois, composer and poet of the Burgundian School
  * January 28, 1495 – Juan de Triana, Spanish singer and composer
  * February 6, 1497 – Johannes Ockeghem, composer of the Franco-Flemish School
  