# 1540s in music

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* 1540s in music
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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

* 1548: Staatskapelle Dresden formed in Saxony.

## Publications
### 1540

* Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi, third installment, important treatise on singing
* Francesco de Layolle – 25 canzoni for five voices (Lyon: Jacques Moderne)
* Hubert Naich – Exercitium Seraficum for four and five voices (Rome: Antonio Blado), a collection of madrigals
* Hans Neusidler – Ein newes Lautenbüchlein (Nuremberg: Hans Guldenmundt), a collection of lute music
* Alfonso dalla Viola – Il secondo libro di madrigali for four voices (Ferrara: Henrico De Campis)
* Claudio Veggio – Madrigali a quattro voci, published in Venice

### 1541

* Martin Agricola – Book of Protestant hymns Sangbuchlein, published in Wittenberg.
* Jhan Gero – Il Primo Libro de Madrigali Italiani et Canzoni Francese a due voci (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 – Canzone villanesche, books 1 and 2, for three voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Giordano Passetto – Madrigali nuovi a voce pare, book 1 (Venice: Antonio Gardano)

### 1542

* Benedictus Appenzeller – Des Chansons a Quattre Parties (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 – Il Quinto Libro di Madrigali for 4 voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Paolo Aretino – Sacra responsoria (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: Das erst Buch: ein newes Lautenbüchlein, Das ander Buch: ein new künstlich Lautten Buch, and Das dritt Buch: ein new künstlich Lauten Buch.
* Georg Rhau – Newe Deudsche Geistliche Gesenge published in Wittemberg.
* Cipriano de Rore – Il secondo libro de madrigali 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

* Perissone Cambio
** Madrigals for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
** Canzone villanesche alla napolitana for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Vincenzo Fontana – First book of canzone villanesche alla napolitana for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Guillaume Le Heurteur – 12 Motets (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant)
* Pierre de Manchicourt – Modulorum musicalium, tome one, for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant), a collection of motets
* Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola – Madrigali for four voices (Venice)
* Cipriano de Rore – Motets for five voices
* Vincenzo Ruffo – Li madrigali a notte negre for four voices published in Venice
* Tielman Susato (ed.)
** Ninth book of chansons, for four voices (Antwerp: Tielman Susato), contains only compositions by Pierre de Manchicourt
* The Lutheran hymnal Geistliche Lieder published by Valentin Babst in Leipzig

### 1546

* Giovan Thomaso di Maio – Canzone villanesche a3, 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 Il furto 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 – Das erst Buch: ein newes Lautenbüchlein
* Caspar Othmayr
** Bicinia sacra (Nuremberg: Johann Berg and Ulrich Neuber)
** Symbola 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 Libra de musica de vihuela intitulado Silva de Sirenas 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 Compendium Musicae 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 – Madrigali d'amore 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 – Primi frutti de motetti for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
* Cipriano de Rore – Il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (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 – Libro primo delli madrigali cromati (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Jacques Buus
** Second book of ricercars (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
** First book of Intabolatura d'organo di recercari (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
** Libro primo delli madrigali a quatro voci (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
** Libro secondo delli madrigali a quatro voce (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Claude Goudimel – book of chansons.
* Clement Janequin – XXX chansons nouvelles
* Didier Lupi Second – 30 Psalms for four voices (Lyon: Beringen & Beringen), French translations by Gilles D'Aurigny
* Hans Neusidler – Das ander Buch: ein new künstlich Lauten Buch
* Giovanni Domenico da Nola – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
* Caspar Othmayr
** Tricinia (Nuremberg: Johann Berg & Ulrich Neuber)
** Reutterische unnd Jegerische Liedlein 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 – Moduli motecta vulga noncupata liber primus – book of motets for 5 voices

## Sacred music
### 1541

* Gasparo Alberti – Magnificat

### 1542

* Gasparo Alberti – Magnificat

### 1547

* Louis Bourgeois – published his first 4-voice psalms

## 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

* September 7 – Hernando de Cabezon, Spanish composer, publisher and editor (d. 1602)
* probable – Vincenzo Bellavere, Italian composer and organist (d. 1587)

### 1542

* January 27 – Gioseffo Guami, Italian composer, organist, singer and teacher (d. 1611)
* February 22 – Santino Garsi da Parma, lutenist and composer (d. 1604)
* May 20 – Gasparo da Salo, Italian violin maker and double bass player (d. 1609)
* November 1 – Tarquinia Molza, Italian singer (d. 1617)
* probable – Cesare Bendinelli, Italian trumpeter (d. 1617)
* probable – Jakob Meiland, German composer, organist and choirmaster (d. 1577)

### 1543

* Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder, Anglo-Italian composer (d. 1588)
* Andreas Pevernage, Flemish composer and choirmaster (d. 1591)
* Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer, teacher, tenor and choirmaster (d. 1607)

### 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

* October 19 – Giovenale Ancina – Italian priest and composer (d. 1604)
* probable
** Gioseppe Caimo, Italian composer and organist (d. post 1584)
** Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Ferrarese composer (d. 1607)
** Lodovico Balbi, Italian composer, singer, choirmaster and Minorite friar (d. 1604)
** Antoine Barbe II, Flemish organist and choirmaster (d. 1604)
** Gioseppe Caimo, Italian composer and organist (d. 1584)
** Bernardo Clavijo del Castillo, Spanish composer, organist, harpsichord player and teacher (d. 1626)
** Anthony Holborne, English composer (d. 1602)

### 1546

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

### 1547

* April 8 – Lucrezia Bendidio, Italian noblewoman and singer (d. c. 1584)
* George de la Hele, Flemish composer (d. 1586).
* Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (d. 1605).

### 1548

* Gines Perez De La Parra, Spanish composer (d. 1600).
* Lambert de Sayve, Flemish singer and composer (d. 1614).
* Tomas Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer, singer, organist, priest and choirmaster (d. 1611).

### 1549

* December 9 – Costanzo Antegnati – Italian organ builder, organist, and composer (d. 1624).
* December 24 – Kaspar Ulenberg, German theologian, poet, and composer (d. 1617)
* Eustache du Caurroy, French composer and singer (d. 1609)
* Giovanni de Macque, French composer, singer, organist and choirmaster (d. 1614)

## 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