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1540s in music

The decade of the 1540s in music (years 1540–1549) involved some significant events.

Events

  • 1540
  • 4 April – Cristobal Morales leaves the position of master of the choristers at the Chapel of the Papal Basilica in St. Peter's, Rome
  • 23 April – Thomas Tallis loses his job at Waltham Abbey due to the Dissolution of the Monasteries
  • 27 April – Gioseffo Zarlino is elected capellini and mansionario of the Scuola di San Francesco in Chioggia
  • 1 May – Ambrose Lupo is taken on as a musician and composer at the court of Henry VIII
  • 30 December – Jacques Arcadelt is appointed maestro di cappella at the Sistine chapel in Rome
  • December – Nicolas Gombert dismissed from his position at the court chapel of the Emperor, Charles V
  • 1541
  • 25 May – Cristobal Morales re-joined the Papal choir at St. Peter's, Rome
  • 15 July – Jacques Buus appointed second organist at the basilica of S Marco, Venice
  • 1542
  • 3 April – Francisco Guerrero joined the Seville Cathedral choir as a contralto
  • 1543: Thomas Tallis becomes a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in England.
  • 20 July Tielman Susato is granted a three-year privilege to print music in the Netherlands.
  • 1544
  • 28 October Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina appointed organist at San Agapito Church, Palestrina
  • 1545
  • 1 May Bartolomeo de Escobedo appointed maestro di cappella at the chapel of the Papal Basilica at St Peter's in Rome.
  • 1 May Cristobal Morales was granted 10 months leave from the Papal Chapel in Rome. He never returned.
  • 31 August Cristobal Morales succeeded Andres de Torrentes as maestro di capilla at Toledo Cathedral.
  • 1547
  • 6 May Waclaw of Szamotuly joined the Chapel Royal of Sigismund II Augustus of Poland in Vilnius.
  • 28 May Jacques Arcadelt reappointed maestro di cappella at the Sistine chapel.
  • 12 June Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina marries Lucrezia de Goris in his home town of Palestrina, Lazio
  • 9 August Cristobal Morales leaves the position of maestro di cappella at Toledo Cathedral.
  • Bologna's first public theatre, the Teatro Della Sala, was opened. It burned down in 1623.
  • 1548 François Roussel appointed maestro di cappella at St. Peter's, Rome
  • 1549 Juan Francisco de Penalosa succeeded Francisca Sacedo as principal organist of Toledo Cathedral
  • Balint Bakfark appointed court lutenist to King Sigismund Augustus of Poland

Bands formed

Publications

1540

  • Sebald Heyden – , third installment, important treatise on singing
  • Francesco de Layolle – 25 for five voices (Lyon: Jacques Moderne)
  • Hubert Naich – for four and five voices (Rome: Antonio Blado), a collection of madrigals
  • Hans Neusidler – (Nuremberg: Hans Guldenmundt), a collection of lute music
  • Alfonso dalla Viola – for four voices (Ferrara: Henrico De Campis)
  • Claudio Veggio – , published in Venice

1541

  • Martin Agricola – Book of Protestant hymns , published in Wittenberg.
  • Jhan Gero – (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Nicolas Gombert
  • Second book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Second book of motets for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Giovanni Domenico da Nola – , books 1 and 2, for three voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Giordano Passetto – , book 1 (Venice: Antonio Gardano)

1542

  • Benedictus Appenzeller – (Antwerp: Henry Loys & Jehan de Buys), a collection of chansons for 4 voices
  • Jacques Arcadelt – First book of madrigals for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), "together with some madrigals by Costanzo Festa along with twelve French chansons and six new motets"
  • Pierre Certon
  • Second book of motets for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant & Hubert Jullet)
  • Third book of motets for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant & Hubert Jullet)
  • Domenico Ferrabosco – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego – Regola rubertina, Venice
  • Johannes Lupi – Third book of motets for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant & Hubert Jullet), published posthumously
  • Cipriano de Rore – First book of madrigals a5.

1543

  • Jacques Buus – First book of French chansons for six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Sebastian z Felsztyna – Directiones musicae ad cathedralis ecclesia premislensis usum, Kraków
  • Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego – Lettione seconda [=second book of Regola rubertina], Venice
  • Balthasar Resinarius – Responsorium numero orctoginta de tempore et festis...libri duo

1544

  • Jacques Arcadelt – for 4 voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Paolo Aretino – (Venice: Gerolamo Scotto)
  • Jacquet de Berchem – "Ala Dolc'ombra de le Belle Frondi" published by Antonio Gardano in Venice.
  • Simon Boyleau – Motets for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Francesco Corteccia – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Cristóbal de Morales
  • First book of masses, for four and five voices (Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico)
  • Second book of masses, for four, five, and six voices (Rome: Valerio and Luigi Dorico)
  • Hans Neusidler – three books of lute music: , , and .
  • Georg Rhau – published in Wittemberg.
  • Cipriano de Rore – for 5 voices published in Venice.
  • Tielman Susato (ed.)
  • Third book of chansons, for four voices (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), contains only compositions by Thomas Crecquillon
  • Fifth book of chansons, for five and six voices (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), contains mostly compositions by Nicolas Gombert

1545

1546

  • Giovan Thomaso di Maio – , book 1.

1547

  • Giovanni Animuccia – First book of madrigals for 4, 5, and 6 voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Loys Bourgeois – First book of four-part psalms (Lyon: Godfroy & Marcelin Beringen frères), published for the Calvinists of Geneva using the French translations by Clément Marot.
  • Jacques Buus – First book of ricercars for four voices or instruments (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Perissone Cambio – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano), also includes a few madrigals by Cipriano de Rore
  • Francesco Corteccia
  • New expanded edition of the first book of madrigals for four voices, including pieces composed for intermedii for the comedy by Francesco d'Ambra (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Second book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Claude Gervaise, ed. – Second book of dances for four instruments (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant)
  • Heinrich Glarean – Dodecachordon published in Basel.
  • Hoste da Reggio – First book of madrigals for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Hans Neusidler –
  • Caspar Othmayr
  • (Nuremberg: Johann Berg and Ulrich Neuber)
  • for five voices (Nuremberg: Johann Berg and Ulrich Neuber), a collection of motets
  • Dominique Phinot – First book of motets for five voices (Lyon: Godefroy & Marcellin Beringen)
  • Enriquez de Valderrabano – Book of vihuela music published in Valladolid

1548

  • Benedictus Appenzeller – A collection of sacred songs without a title (Augsburg: Philip Ulhart)
  • Arnold Caussin – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Heinrich Faber – Beginner's music textbook published in Nuremberg.
  • Didier Lupi Second
  • First book of spiritual chansons for four voices (Lyon: Beringen & Beringen), all texts by Guillaume Guéroult
  • Third Book, containing 35 chansons for four voices (Lyon: Beringen & Beringen)
  • Tugdual Menon – for four voices (Ferrara: Giovanni de Buglhat & Antonio Hucher)
  • Jan Nasco – Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Dominique Phinot
  • Second book of motets for six, seven, and eight voices (Lyon: Godefroy & Marcellin Beringer)
  • First book of thirty-seven chansons (Lyon: Godefroy & Marcellin Beringer)
  • Second book containing thirty-six chansons (Lyon: Godefroy & Marcellin Beringer)
  • Francesco Portinaro – for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Cipriano de Rore – (Third Book of Madrigals for Five Voices) published in Venice.

1549

  • Gasparo Alberti – First book of masses (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), the first printed book of masses dedicated to a single Italian composer
  • Paolo Aretino – (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Jacques Buus
  • Second book of ricercars (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • First book of (Venice: Antonio Gardano), a collection of ricercars in organ tablature
  • First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Ghiselin Danckerts – Canons for four voices (Augsburg: Melchior Kriesstein)
  • Nicolao Dorati – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
  • Jhan Gero
  • (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Claude Goudimel – book of chansons.
  • Clement Janequin –
  • Didier Lupi Second – 30 Psalms for four voices (Lyon: Beringen & Beringen), French translations by Gilles D'Aurigny
  • Hans Neusidler –
  • Giovanni Domenico da Nola – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
  • Caspar Othmayr
  • (Nuremberg: Johann Berg & Ulrich Neuber)
  • for four voices (Nuremberg: Johann Berg & Ulrich Neuber)
  • Robert Wedderburn (probable) – The Complaynt of Scotland, including the earliest known references (in Middle Scots) to a number of Border ballads
  • Gioseffo Zarlino – – book of motets for 5 voices

Sacred music

1541

1542

1547

Births

1540

  • date unknown – Giovanni Maria Artusi, Italian composer and theorist (d. 1613)
  • probable – William Byrd, English composer (d. 1623)
  • probable – Jakob Regnart, Franco-Flemish composer (d. 1599)
  • probable – Girolamo Dalla Casa, Italian composer, cornetist and writer (d. 1601)
  • probable – William Daman, Flemish recorder player, organist and composer (d. 1591)
  • probable – Giovanni Dragoni, Italian composer (d. 1598)
  • probable – Noel Fagnient, Flemish composer and shopkeeper (d. c. 1600)
  • probable – Johannes de Fossa, Flemish composer and choirmaster (d, 1603)
  • probable – Marcin Leopolita, Polish composer and musician (d. c. 1585)
  • probable – Francesco Rovigo, Italian composer and organist (d. 1597)
  • probable – Alexander Utendal, Flemish singer, composer and choirmaster (d. 1581)
  • probable – Matthaus Waissel, German lutenist, composer, Lutheran theologian, publisher, schoolteacher and writer (d. 1602)

1541

1542

1543

1544

  • Maddelena Casulana, Italian composer, lutenist and singer. First female composer of the period to have her music printed and published.
  • Ivo de Vento, Flemish composer and organist (d. 1575).

1545

1546

  • date unknown – Luca Bati, Italian composer (d. 1608)

1547

1548

1549

Deaths

  • 1540: Francesco De Layolle, Italian composer and organist (b. 1492)
  • 1541:
  • Lupus Hellinck, Flemish composer (b. c. 1493/1494)
  • Hans Kotter, Organist and composer (b. 1480)
  • 1542: Lodovico Fogliano, theorist and composer (c. 66)
  • 1543: probable
  • Ludwig Senfl, Swiss composer (b. c. 1486)
  • Francesco Canova da Milano, composer and lutenist (b. 1497)
  • Avery Burton, composer (c.73) died in England
  • 1544:
  • Balthasar Resinarius, (b. c. 1483)
  • Benedictus Dulcis, (c. 52)
  • 1545: April 10 – Constanzo Festa, Italian composer (b. c.1485–1490)
  • July 7 – William Crane, English composer, musician and merchant.
  • Pietro Aaron, Italian composer, theorist and priest (b. c. 1480)
  • Sebastian z Felsztyna, Polish composer and theorist (b. c. 1480–1490)
  • 1546: October 18 – John Taverner, English composer (b. c. 1490)
  • 1547: October or November – John Redford, English composer, poet and playwright (b. c. 1500)
  • 1548: June 14 – Elzéar Genet de Carpentras, French composer (b. c. 1470)
  • January 23 – Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer and singer (b. 1490).
  • April 10 – Giacomo Fogliano, Italian composer, organist and teacher (b. c. 1468)
  • August 16 – Georg Rhau, printer, publisher and composer, died in Wittenberg (b. 1488)
  • October 21 – Sixt Dietrich, composer and teacher, died in St Gallen, Switzerland (c. 55)
  • Vincenzo Capirola, lutenist and composer, died in Brescia (b. 1474).
  • 1549: Richard Pygott, English composer and choirmaster

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