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.

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 15392). 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

1530

 * We-Liang-Hu composed music for a play by 14th-century poet Gao Ming.

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 (d. 1580)
 * c.1530: Nicolas de La Grotte, French composer and keyboard player (d. c. 1600)
 * c.1530: Richard Farrant, English composer of church music, choirmaster, playwright and theatre producer (d.1580)
 * c.1530: Guillaume Costeley, French composer and organist (d. 1606)
 * 1530: Teodora Ginés, Dominican musician and composer (d. 1598)
 * 1531: Ercole Bottrigari, Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect and composer (d. 1612)
 * c.1520/31: Guillaume Costeley, French composer (d. 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 (d. 1598)
 * March 25 – Pietro Pontio, Italian theorist and composer (d. 1596)
 * date unknown – Giammateo Asola, Italian composer (d. 1609)
 * probable – Orlando de Lassus aka Roland de Latre, Franco-Flemish composer of late Renaissance music (d. 1594)
 * Adam Puschmann, German poet, songwriter and Meistersinger (d. 1600)
 * c.1532 David Koler, German composer and Kapellmeister (d. 1565)
 * c. 1530–40: Giorgio Mainerio, Italian composer (d. 1582)
 * 1533:
 * c.1533 Laurent de Vos, Flemish composer, singer and musician (d. 1580)
 * October 16 – Gallus Dressler, German composer, theorist and cantor. (d. 1580s)
 * April 8 – Claudio Merulo, Italian organist, composer and publisher (d. 1604)
 * date unknown - Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer and organist (d. 1585)
 * 1534: Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (d. 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. (d. 1604)
 * Fernando de Las Infantas, Spanish composer, theologian, priest and philanthropist. Born Cordoba. (d. c. 1610)
 * c.1534 Christian Ameyden, Flemish composer, tenor and choirmaster. Born Aerschot, Belgium. (d. 1605)
 * 1535 Annibale Stabile, Italian composer, singer, choirmaster and priest. Born Naples. (d. 1595)
 * c.1535
 * c.1535 Cesare Negri, Italian dancing master (d. c. 1604)
 * c.1535 Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer, teacher and choirmaster (d. 1592).
 * Antoine de Bertrand, French composer (d. 1581)
 * Bernhard Schmid the Elder, German organist and music editor (d. 1592)
 * Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer of Italian madrigals (d. 1596)
 * probable – Innocentio Alberti, Italian instrumentalist and composer (d. 1615)
 * 1536: Zhu Zaiyu, Chinese prince, music theorist, scholar and writer (d. 1611)
 * Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer, viol player and diplomat (d. 1592)
 * 1537: Johann Wanning, Dutch-born composer, kapellmeister and alto singer (d. 1603)
 * Annibale Zoilo, Italian composer, singer and choirmaster (d. 1592)
 * 1538 Stefano Felis, Italian composer, singer and choirmaster (d. 1603)
 * c.1538 Johannes Matelart, Flemish composer and choirmaster (d. 1607)
 * c.1538 Robert White, English composer and choirmaster (d. 1574)
 * 1539
 * December 20 – Paulus Melissus, writer and composer (d. 1602)
 * c.1539 Paschal de L'Estocart, French composer (d. c. 1587)
 * c.1539 Ippolito Tartaglino, Italian composer (d. c. 1580)

Deaths

 * c.1530 Noel Bauldewijn, Flemish composer (b. c. 1480).
 * c.1530 Antonius Divitis, court composer of Louis XII of France (b. 1470).
 * 1533:
 * September 20 - Nicolas Champion, composer and singer, (b. c. 1475).
 * c.1535:
 * Pedro de Escobar (b. 1465).
 * Bartolomeo Tromboncino (b. 1470).
 * 1536:
 * May 17 – Mark Smeaton, English court musician (b. c. 1512; executed for alleged adultery with Anne Boleyn)
 * June 26 – Pierre Alamire, German-Dutch music copyist, composer, instrumentalist, mining engineer, merchant, diplomat and spy (b. c. 1470)
 * 1537: Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian composer and organist (b. 1459).
 * 1538:
 * March – Hans Buchner, organist and composer (b. 1483).
 * October – Maistre Jhan, composer (b. c. 1485)
 * Richard Davy, composer (b. c. 1465).
 * 1539:
 * December 12 – Bartolomeo degli Organi, composer, singer and organist (b. 1474).
 * December 20 – Johannes Lupi, composer (b. c. 1506; chronic illness)
 * Ottaviano Petrucci – printer and publisher (b. 1466)
 * c.1539 Andrea Antico – publisher, editor and composer (b. c. 1480)
 * c.1539 Dionisio Memmo – Italian organist and choirmaster. Worked in the court of Henry VIII