1510s in music

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.
• 1517:
• March – Heinrich Finck sends greetings from Mühldorf, Bavaria, to the humanist Joachim Vadian.
• April 15 – Juan García de Basurto is hired as a singer by the cathedral chapter of Tarazona, at an annual salary of 1200 sueldos.
• June – Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego joins the pifferi of the Venetian government as a "contralto".
• Sixt Dietrich is forced to leave Freiburg because of debts, but in November is appointed ' by the cathedral chapter in Konstanz.
• 1518: Composer Ludwig Senfl loses a toe in a hunting accident.

• 1511:
• Franciscus Bossinensis – (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci)
• Arnolt Schlick – , the first treatise on organ-making in German
• Sebastian Virdung – , published in Basel, the first European treatise entirely devoted to the subject of musical instruments.
• 1512: Arnolt Schlick – ', 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 – ' (Kraków: Johann Haller).
• 1518:
• The Medici Codex (manuscript)
• Franchinus Gaffurius – '. Milan.

Compositions

• 1510: Josquin des Prez assembles or composes ', a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, and it becomes the most popular of his masses in the 16th century.
• 1513: Heinrich Isaac – ', motet celebrating the meeting in December of Maximilian I's Chancellor, Cardinal Lang, and the newly elected Pope Leo X
• 1514: Costanzo Festa – ', funeral ode for Anne of Brittany, Queen of France
• 1519: Adrian Willaert – ', 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 (died 1580)
• 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)

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