1530s in music

The decade of the 1530s in music (years 1530-1539) involved some significant compositions.

Events

• 1532: Thomas Tallis takes his first known musical appointment, as organist at Dover Priory.
• 1538: Tallis moves from Dover to Waltham Abbey.

Publications

1532

• Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi, first installment, important treatise on singing

1535

• Philippe Verdelot – First book of madrigals a5.

1536

• Hans Neusidler – Two books of lute music, Ein newgeordent künstlich Lautenbuch and Der ander Theil des Lautenbuchs.
• Philippe Verdelot – Second book of madrigals a4.

1537

• Sebald Heyden – De arte canendi, second installment, important treatise on singing

1538

• Maddalena Casulana – First book of madrigals for Four Voices, published in Venice. It is the first printed book of music by a woman in history.
• Luis de Narváez – Los seys libros del Delphin, a large collection of lute music
• Philippe Verdelot – Second book of madrigals a5, and Le dotte, et eccellente compositioni....
• Ein Hubsch new Gesangbuch, the first Protestant hymn-book, published in Ulm.

1539

• Jacques Arcadelt – First book of madrigals a4.

Classical music

1530

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

Births

• 1531: Ercole Bottrigari, Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect and composer (died 1612)
• 1532:
  • March 25 - Pietro Pontio, Italian theorist and composer (died 1596)
  • date unknown - Giammateo Asola, Italian composer (died 1609)
  • probable – Orlando de Lassus aka Roland de Latre, Franco-Flemish composer of late Renaissance music (died 1594)
• c. 1530-40: Giorgio Mainerio, Italian composer (died 1582)
• 1533: Andrea Gabrieli, Italian composer and organist (died 1586)
• 1534: Lodovico Agostini, Italian composer (died 1590)
• 1535
  • Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer of Italian madrigals (died 1596)
  • probable – Innocentio Alberti, Italian instrumentalist and composer (died 1615)
• 1537: Johann Wanning, Dutch-born composer, kapellmeister and alto singer (died 1603)
• 1539
  • December 20 – Paulus Melissus, writer and composer (died 1602)

Deaths

• 1536:
  • May 17 - Mark Smeaton, English court musician, executed for alleged adultery with Anne Boleyn (born 1512)
  • June 26 - Pierre Alamire, German-Dutch music copyist, composer, instrumentalist, mining engineer, merchant, diplomat and spy (born 1470)
• 1537: Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian composer and organist (born 1459)
• 1538:
  • March – Hans Buchner, organist and composer, 54
  • October – Maistre Jhan, composer (born c.1485)
• 1539:
  • December 12 - Bartolomeo degli Organi, composer, singer and organist, 64
  • December 20 - Johannes Lupi, composer (born c.1506)