1530s in music
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- 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.
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Classical music
1530
- We-Liang-Hu composed music for a play by 14th-century poet Gao Ming.
Sacred music
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
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