1540s in music

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 – , third installment, important treatise on singing Francesco de Layolle – 25 for five voices (Lyon: Jacques Moderne) Hubert Naich – for four and five voices (Rome: Antonio Blado), a collection of madrigals Hans Neusidler – (Nuremberg: Hans Guldenmundt), a collection of lute music Alfonso dalla Viola – for four voices (Ferrara: Henrico De Campis) Claudio Veggio – , published in Venice

1541 Martin Agricola – Book of Protestant hymns , published in Wittenberg. Jhan Gero – (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 – , books 1 and 2, for three voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Giordano Passetto – , book 1 (Venice: Antonio Gardano)

1542 Benedictus Appenzeller – (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 First known songs by Ebran are published by Pierre Attaingnant

1544 Jacques Arcadelt – for 4 voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Paolo Aretino – (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: , , and . Georg Rhau – published in Wittemberg. Cipriano de Rore – 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) for four voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Vincenzo Fontana – First book of for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Guillaume Le Heurteur – 12 Motets (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant) Pierre de Manchicourt – , tome one, for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant), a collection of motets Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola – for four voices (Venice) Cipriano de Rore – Motets for five voices Vincenzo Ruffo – 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 – , 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 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 – Caspar Othmayr (Nuremberg: Johann Berg and Ulrich Neuber) 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 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 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 – 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 – for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano) Cipriano de Rore – (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 – (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Jacques Buus Second book of ricercars (Venice: Antonio Gardano) First book of (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 (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Claude Goudimel – book of chansons. Clement Janequin – Didier Lupi Second – 30 Psalms for four voices (Lyon: Beringen & Beringen), French translations by Gilles D'Aurigny Hans Neusidler – Giovanni Domenico da Nola – First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto) Caspar Othmayr (Nuremberg: Johann Berg & Ulrich Neuber) 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 – – 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