1520s in music
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| 1510s 1510s in music The decade of the 1510s in music involved some significant compositions.- Publications :* 1511: Arnolt Schlick – Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten, the first treatise on organ-making in German... . 1520s in music . 1530s 1530s in music The decade of the 1530s in music involved some significant compositions.-1536:* Hans Neusidler – Two books of lute music, Ein newgeordent künstlich Lautenbuch and Der ander Theil des Lautenbuchs... |
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The decade of the 1520s in music (years 1520-1529) involved some significant compositions.
Publications
- 1520: Capirola LutebookCapirola LutebookThe so-called Capirola Lutebook is one of the most important sources of early 16th century Italian lute music. It is an illuminated manuscript which comprises the entire surviving output of Vincenzo Capirola....
is compiled from the works of Vincenzo CapirolaVincenzo CapirolaVincenzo Capirola was an Italian composer, lutenist and nobleman of the Renaissance. His music is preserved in an illuminated manuscript called the Capirola Lutebook, which is considered to be one of the most important sources of lute music of the early 16th century.-Life and music:He was... - 1529: Martin AgricolaMartin AgricolaMartin Agricola was a German composer of Renaissance music and a music theorist.He was born in Schwiebus in Lower Silesia. His German name was Sohr or Sore....
– Musica instrumentalis deudsch, a description of the musical instruments common in Germany at the time.
1520
- Andrea Amati, Italian violin maker, who stands as the first of the Cremona school (d. c.1578)
- Christoph Fischer or Vischer (c.1518/1520), hymnist (d. 15981598 in music- Events :*Thomas Weelkes becomes organist at Winchester College.*The "first documented European music education" in the United States begins in a colony in New Mexico, founded by a group of Spanish friars accompanying Juan de Oñate.- Classical music :...
) - Vincenzo GalileiVincenzo GalileiVincenzo Galilei was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and the father of the famous astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and of the lute virtuoso and composer Michelagnolo Galilei...
(c.1520), lutenist who also composed other music (d. 15911591 in music- Events :* Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer, is appointed maestro de capilla by Seville Cathedral.* Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer and successor to Palestrina at St...
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1525
- March 4 – Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaGiovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaGiovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition...
, Roman composer, primarily of sacred music (died 1594)
Deaths
- 1521: August 27 – Josquin des PrezJosquin Des PrezJosquin des Prez [Josquin Lebloitte dit Desprez] , often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance...
, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1450-1455) - 1522: October 30 – Jean MoutonJean MoutonJean Mouton was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was famous both for his motets, which are among the most refined of the time, and for being the teacher of Adrian Willaert, one of the founders of the Venetian School....
, Franch composer (born c.1459) - 1525: probable – Arnolt SchlickArnolt SchlickArnolt Schlick was a German organist, lutenist and composer of the Renaissance. He is grouped among the composers known as the Colorists. He was most probably born in Heidelberg and by 1482 established himself as court organist for the Electoral Palatinate...
, German organist and composer (born c.1460)