1470s in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the 1470s.

Events

• 1470
• 5 August – Guillaume Du Fay purchases some land in his homeland of Beersel to provide an income to establish his obiit.
• October – Antoine Busnois first becomes a member of the Burgundian chapel as a (he would be promoted to full chaplain in 1472).
• November – Antoine Busnois is paid for "services ... of which the duke [of Burgundy] wished no further mention to be made in the accounts"—probably a delicate diplomatic mission recruiting new musicians from another court.
• Blind organist, harpist, lutenist, and fiddle player Conrad Paumann tours Italy, where his playing on various instruments causes a sensation at the court of the Gonzagas in Mantua.
• 1471
• After fifteen years in the humble position of clerc in the Burgundian court chapel, Robert Morton is promoted to chappelain, a position in which he would remain until early 1476.
• 1475 – Organ builder Lorenzo da Prato completes his masterpiece, the organ in cornu Epistolae of the San Petronio Basilica in Bologna.

Bands formed

• 1479 – The Gosudarevï Pevchiye d′Yaki (literally Ruler’s Singing Clerks, the court choir of Moscow), is established by Ivan the Great.

Publications

• 1470 – Approximate date of the completion of the Buxheim Organ Book
• 1471 – Professional scribe Clara Hätzlerin completes her Liederbuch in Augsburg.
• ca. 1473 – The Königsteiner Liederbuch is completed.
• 1475 – Johannes Tinctoris, Terminorum musicae diffinitorium, compiled by this year.
• 1476 – Johannes Tinctoris, Liber de natura et proprietate tonorum, completed 6 November.
• 1477 – Johannes Tinctoris, Liber de arte contrapuncti, completed 11 October.

Compositions

• 1470 – Guillaume Du Fay, Requiem Mass, for three voices (lost)
• ca.1470–73 – Guillaume Du Fay, Missa Ave Regina Celorum
• 1472 – Loyset Compère, Omnium bonorum plena, motet, possibly written for the dedication of Cambrai Cathedral on 2 July.
• 1473 – Johannes Martini, Perfunde coeli rore, motet in four voices, composed for the wedding of Duke Ercole I d'Este and Eleonora d'Aragona
• ca. 1476 – Alexander Agricola, Gaudent in celis, motet

Births

• 1470
• 9 April – Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa, Italian lutenist, singer, and teacher (d. December 1530)
• Approximately this year
• Elzéar Genet, dit Carpentras, French composer (d. 1548)
• Antoine de Févin, French composer (d. 1511 or 1512)
• Mathurin Forestier, French composer
• Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer (d. 1528)
• Michele Pesenti, Italian composer and lutenist (d. after 1524)
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Italian composer of frottole (d. after 1535)

Deaths

• 1470
• 25 February – Richard de Bellengues, dit Cardot, French singer and composer (b. ca. 1380)
• 1473
• 24 January – Conrad Paumann, German organist, harpist, lutenist, fiddle player, and composer (b. ca.1410)
• 1474
• 27 November – Guillaume Du Fay, French composer (b. ca. 1397; illness)
• 1479
• After 13 March – Robert Morton (composer) (b. ca. 1430)

References