1500s in music

The first decade of the 16th century marked the creation of some significant compositions. These were to become some of the most famous compositions of the century.^[vague]

• 1490s
• 1500s in music
• 1510s

Music timeline

Events

• 1501:
  • April 28 – Bartolomeo Tromboncino receives an unhelpful letter of reference from Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, after abandoning his position at the Mantua court without permission for the second time.^{[1][failed verification]}
  • May – Francisco de Peñalosa receives an increase in salary to 30,000 maravedis, the maximum paid to a singer-chaplain in the royal chapel of Ferdinand II of Aragon.^[2]
  • June 1 – Antoine Brumel is hired as a singer at the court of Philibert II, Duke of Savoy at Chambéry.^[3]
  • September – Jean Mouton begins a short tenure at the collegiate church of St André in Grenoble, teaching plainchant and polyphony to choirboys.^[4]
  • October 16 – Nikolaus Decius matriculates at Leipzig University.
  • exact date unknown – Robert Fayrfax graduates with a MusB at Cambridge University.^[5]
• 1502:
  • June 1 – Antoine de Longueval joins the chapel of Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, at a salary half again higher than any other singer.^[6]
  • exact date unknown – Adam of Fulda matriculates at the newly founded University of Wittenberg^[7]
• 1503: Pierre de la Rue, Alexander Agricola and Henry Bredemers travel to Heidelberg with the Habsburg court, where they most probably meet Arnolt Schlick.
• April 1503: Josquin des Prez leaves France and is employed by Ercole d'Este I in Ferrara; he leaves for Condé-sur-l'Escaut in April 1504.
• 1504:
  • May 3 – Josquin des Prez arrives in Condé-sur-l'Escaut to assume the post of Provost of the collegiate church of Notre Dame, recently vacated by Pierre Duwez.^[8]
  • Jacob Obrecht succeeds Josquin des Prez as maestro di capella in Ferrara.
• June 1505: After the death of Ercole d'Este and the succession of Alfonso I as Duke of Ferrara, Obrecht finds himself unemployed, but before he can secure another post, contracts the plague and dies scarcely a month after his employer.
• 1506:
  • June 5 – Heinrich Glarean begins his studies at the University of Cologne.^[9]
  • June 19 – On the recommendation of Emperor Maximilian I, Hans Buchner is appointed organist of the cathedral of Konstanz.^[10]
  • exact date unknown – Antoine Brumel settles in Ferrara, replacing Jacob Obrecht (who died in July 1505) at Alfonso I's court.
• 1507: Paul Hofhaimer settles in Augsburg, where he could be closer to Roman emperor Maximilian I whom he served as organist

Publications

See also: List of publications by Ottaviano Petrucci

• 1501: Harmonice musices odhecaton A, the first printed collection of polyphonic music, published by Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice. It was followed by two more volumes, in 1502 and 1503.
• 1502: Josquin des Prez – Misse Josquin, published by Ottaviano Petrucci, including the Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales
• 1503:
  • Antoine Brumel – 4 Masses for four voices (Venice: Ottaviano Petricci)
  • Johannes Ghiselin – Misse Ioannis Ghiselin for four voices (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci)
  • Jacob Obrecht – Misse Obrecht for four voices (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci)
  • Pierre de la Rue – Misse Petri de la Rue for four voices (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci)
  • Gregoire – Ave verum corpus/Ecce panis angelorum/Bone pastor/O salutaris hostia, motet for four voices (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci)^[11]
• 1504: Alexander Agricola – Misse Alexandri agricole (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci)
• 1507: Francesco Spinacino – Intabolatura de lauto (two volumes), the earliest known publication of lute music
• 1508: Joan Ambrosio Dalza – Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto, published by Ottaviano Petrucci, including the earliest known publication of music for the pavane
• 1509: Franciscus Bossinensis – First book of Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci)

Compositions

• 1501: Loyset Compère – Gaude prole regia/Sancta Catharina, ceremonial motet for five voices, written for the reception of Duke Philip the Fair, in his capacity of Governor of the Netherlands, in Paris on November 25.^[12]
• 1502: Josquin des Prez – Salve regina, for five voices.
• 1503–04: Josquin des Prez
  • Miserere mei Deus (Psalm 50/51), for five voices
  • Virgo salutiferi (motet)
• 1504: August – Bartolomeo Tromboncino, "Sì è debile il filo", frottola, and the earliest known setting of a Petrarchan canzone; later published in Petrucci's seventh book of frottolas (Venice, 1507).^[1]
• 1507: Heinrich Isaac – Virgo prudentissima, motet for six voices

Births

• 1500:
  • November 3, Benvenuto Cellini, cornettist and recorder player, best known as a goldsmith and sculptor (died February 13, 1571)
  • probable
    • Arnold von Bruck, Franco-Flemish composer (died 1554)^[13]
    • Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (died 1553)^[14]
• 1502: July 27 – Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer (died 1571)
• c. 1505
  • Thomas Tallis, English composer (died 1585)^[15]
  • Christopher Tye, English composer and organist (died c. 1572)^[15]
• c. 1507: Jacques Arcadelt, Franco-Flemish composer (died 1568)

Deaths

Jacob Obrecht

• 1500: estimated – John Browne, English composer of music from the Eton Choirbook (born c. 1453)^[16]
• 1501: February 17 – Stephan Plannck, German music printer active in Italy (born c. 1457)
• 1505
  • date unknown – Adam of Fulda, German composer and theoretician (born c. 1445; plague)^[17]
  • July – Jacob Obrecht, Flemish composer (born 1457 or 1458; plague)^[18]
• 1506:
  • May 2 – Johannes von Soest, German composer (born 1448)
  • August 15 – Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer (born c. 1445; plague)
• 1507: late February – Francisco de la Torre, Spanish composer (possibly plague)