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 demi-chappelain (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)