title: 1530s in music
text: # 1530s in music
  
  The decade of the 1530s in music (years 1530–1539) 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 (bar a couple of gaps) until his death in 1591.
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### 1530
  
  * Madrigali de diversi musici: libro primo de la Serena (Rome: Valerio Dorico). 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 (Avignon: Jean de Channay)
     * Lamentations for five voices (Avignon: Jean de Channay)
  * Hans Gerle – Musica Teusch (Nuremberg: Hieronymous Formschneider), 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 (Valencia: Francisco Diaz Romano), 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 (Book of songs for three voices) (Rome: Valerio & Luigi Dorico)
  * 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 (Valladolid: Diego Hernandez), 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 (Venice: Antonio Gardano), the most reprinted madrigal book of the sixteenth century
     * Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
     * Third book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
     * Fourth book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  * Noel Bauldeweyn – Missa da Pacem (Nuremberg: Ott, RISM $1539^2).$ 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 (Ferrara: Henrico De Campis & Antonio Hucher for Giovanni De Buglhat)
  * Georg Forster – First volume of his 'Fresh German Songs' published in Nuremberg
  * Nicolas Gombert
     * First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
     * First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  * 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 (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
     * First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  * Pierre de Manchicourt – Book 14: 19 Motets for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant & Hubert Jullet), 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 (d.1580)
  * c.1530: Guillaume Costeley, French composer and organist (died 1606)
  * 1530: Teodora Ginés, Dominican musician and composer (died 1598)
  * 1531: Ercole Bottrigari, Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect and composer (died 1612)
  * c.1520/31: Guillaume Costeley, French composer (died 1606)
  * c.1531/32: Jacobus de Kerle, Flemish composer, organist, choirmaster and priest (d.1591)
  * 1532: Hernando Franco, Spanish composer and choirmaster. The earliest known composer of music in Guatemala (d.1585)
     * December 5 – Nikolaus Selnecker, German theologian, hymn-writer, organist and cleric (d.1592)
     * February 19 – Jean-Antonie de Baif, French poet, co-founder of the Academie de Poesie et de Musique in Paris (d.1589)
     * January 21 – Ludwig Hembold, German poet and hymn writer (died 1598)
     * 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)
  * Adam Puschmann, German poet, songwriter and Meistersinger (died 1600)
  * c.1532 David Koler, German composer and Kapellmeister (died 1565)
  * c. 1530–40: Giorgio Mainerio, Italian composer (died 1582)
  * 1533:
  * c.1533 Laurent de Vos, Flemish composer, singer and musician. Murdered in Cambrai 1580.
  * October 16 – Gallus Dressler, German composer, theorist and cantor. (died 1580s)
     * April 8 – Claudio Merulo, Italian organist, composer and publisher (died 1604)
     * date unknown - Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer and organist (died 1585)
  * 1534: Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (died 1590)
     * 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. (died 1604)
     * Fernando de Las Infantas, Spanish composer, theologian, priest and philanthropist. Born Cordoba. (died c.1610)
  * c.1534 Christian Ameyden, Flemish composer, tenor and choirmaster. Born Aerschot, Belgium. (died 1605)
  * 1535 Annibale Stabile, Italian composer, singer, choirmaster and priest. Born Naples. (died 1595)
     * c.1535
     * c.1535Cesare Negri, Italian dancing master (died c.1604)
     * c.1535Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer, teacher and choirmaster.
     * Antoine de Bertrand, French composer (killed 1581)
     * Bernhard Schmid the Elder, German organist and music editor (died 1592)
     * Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer of Italian madrigals (died 1596)
     * probable – Innocentio Alberti, Italian instrumentalist and composer (died 1615)
  * 1536: Zhu Zaiyu, Chinese prince, music theorist, scholar and writer (died 1611)
     * Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer, viol player and diplomat (died 1592)
  * 1537: Johann Wanning, Dutch-born composer, kapellmeister and alto singer (died 1603)
     * Annibale Zoilo, Italian composer, singer and choirmaster (died 1592)
  * 1538 Stefano Felis, Italian composer, singer and choirmaster (died 1603)
     * c.1538 Johannes Matelart, Flemish composer and choirmaster (died 1607))
     * c.1538 Robert White, English composer and choirmaster (died 1574)
  * 1539
     * December 20 – Paulus Melissus, writer and composer (died 1602)
     * c.1539 Paschal de L'Estocart, French composer (died c.1587)
     * c.1539 Ippolito Tartaglino, Italian composer (died c.1580)
  
  ## 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.58
  * c.1535:
     * Pedro de Escobar, c.70
     * Bartolomeo Tromboncino, c.65
  * 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)
     * Richard Davy, composer (c.72), died in Exeter
  * 1539:
     * December 12 – Bartolomeo degli Organi, composer, singer and organist, 64
     * December 20 – Johannes Lupi, composer (born c.1506)
     * Ottaviano Petrucci – printer and publisher
     * c.1539 Andrea Antico – publisher, editor and composer (c.59)
     * c.1539 Dionisio Memmo – Italian organist and choirmaster. Worked in the court of Henry VIII
  