Music year 1520
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
- June 7th - June 24th : The King of France, Francis I , and the King of England , Henry VIII. , Meet at the Camp du Drap d'Or (Field of the Cloth of Gold) des Güldenen Tuches), a place in the French commune of Balinghem between Ardres and Guînes near Calais . The diplomatic meeting in a provisional army camp gets its name from the sumptuous design of the tent accommodations and the luxurious gold-embroidered costumes with which the two delegations want to impress and excel each other. The official aim of the meeting is to improve relations between the royal families. The rulers are accompanied by their court bands, which are responsible for the musical framework program. The director of the court chapel of Francis I is Jean Mouton , the director of the court chapel of Henry VIII is William Cornysh .
- Bonifacius Amerbach , who had previously studied in Basel and Freiburg im Breisgau , completed his training at the University of Avignon from 1519 to 1525 , where he was a student of Andreas Alciatus . His studies, he is a PhD for Doctor of Laws finish.
- Jakob Arcadelt was a choirboy ("vicariot") from 1516 to 1524 under the choirmasters Lambert Masson and Charles de Niquet at the collegiate church of St. Aubain in his hometown of Namur .
- Pietro Aron , who has been a priest in Imola since 1516 , worked there as a singer at the cathedral from 1520 to June 1522 and gave music lessons in the city.
- Hans Buchner is the cathedral organist at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Constance .
- Vincenzo Capirola works in Venice. One of his students completed the so-called Capirola lute book in Venice .
- Marco Cara has been a lute virtuoso in the service of the Gonzaga family in Mantua since 1495 and until 1525 , who promoted artists of all kinds in his day.
- Carpentras is Kapellmeister of the papal chapel in Rome under the Medici Pope Leo X , who is an avid patron of music and the arts.
- Marco Antonio Cavazzoni worked in Venice between 1517 and 1524 as a singer at St. Mark's Basilica and organist at Santo Stefano . From 1520 to 1521 he stayed in the Vatican to appear before Pope Leo X.
- Nicolas Champion 's as canon - Kantor in Lier successor to the late cantor de Nicolas Leesmeester. He remains temporarily in the service of Charles V's court orchestra .
- Josquin Desprez has been provost at his former place of work in Condé-sur-l'Escaut since 1504 . He is referred to as monsieur le prevost messire Josse des pres . The position is attractive for the former music director not only for its local property ownership, but even more because of the good staffing the church and the quality of the local music exercise, second only to the cathedral in Cambrai and Saint-Vincent in Soignies exceeded becomes. The provost here (according to a list from 1523) holds the secular power in the parish and is the superior of the dean , the treasurer, 25 canons, 18 chaplains, 16 vicars and six choirboys, plus some priests without benefices; A choir of vicars and choirboys usually takes part in the lavishly designed church services, so that up to 22 music-trained voices are available and up to six-part works can be performed. Josquin Desprez worked in this position for 17 years until the end of his life.
- Sixt Dietrich , who is the teacher of the choirboys in music and Latin in Constance and who was ordained a deacon in the previous year , received benefices on April 30, 1520 at the cathedral in Constance.
- Antonius Divitis is the singer of the court orchestra of the French King Franz I.
- Costanzo Festa , who may have studied with Jean Mouton in Paris , has been papal choir singer in Rome since 1517 and later becomes the director of this choir.
- Franchinus Gaffurius is Kapellmeister at Milan Cathedral .
- Johannes Galliculus acts - such as from the publications of the Leipzig Humaniste n Christoph Hegendorff seen - around 1520 and then as a musician in Leipzig .
- Heinrich Glarean stayed in Paris from 1517 to 1522 during his studies, and there he met Jean Mouton .
- Lupus Hellinck , who returned to Bruges in autumn 1519 , is a priest and choir member of St. Donatian.
- Nikolaus Herman is a cantor and teacher at the Latin school in St. Joachimsthal .
- Hans Kugelmann has been employed in the court chapel of Emperor Maximilian I since 1518 .
- Jacotin Le Bel worked as a singer in the private chapel of Pope Leo X in Rome until 1520.
- Georg Liban lectures at the University of Kraków and worked as cantor at the St. Mary's School from around 1506 to 1528, and as rector since 1514. He teaches Latin prosody , Greek and music.
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Johannes Lupi is a choirboy at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in his hometown of Cambrai and is thus receiving training at one of the most important ecclesiastical music centers of the time.
Very little information is available about the life and appearance of the English composer John Taverner . It is possible that it is depicted in the Forrest-Heyther Partbook (created around 1520) in a decorative " capital E", provided with the Latin language role: Joh (ann) es Tavern (er). - Jean l'Héritier works for Pope Leo X in Rome.
- Jachet de Mantua belongs to the Rangoni family in Modena from 1519 to 1520 as “maestro Giachetto cantor” .
- Francesco Canova da Milano works for Pope Leo X in Rome.
- Jean Mouton is - like Antonius Divitis - a member of Franz I's court orchestra . In 1520 he takes part in the meeting of the French and English courts at the Camp du Drap d'Or (English Field of the Cloth of Gold).
- Marbrianus de Orto is the premier chapelain of the court orchestra of Charles, the Duke of the Burgundian Netherlands , who was elected Emperor on October 23, 1520.
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Francesco Patavino , who worked in Treviso as Maestro di Capella at the Church of San Francesco from July 1512 to June 1513 , becomes Kapellmeister at the Treviso Cathedral. His presence in Treviso is documented until 1528.
- Francisco de Peñalosa , who was a member of the Spanish Royal Chapel, has been a singer in the Papal Chapel of Pope Leo X in Rome since the late summer of 1517 . Peñalosa holds this office at least until the death of Leo X in 1521; according to other sources even until 1523.
- Matteo Rampollini , who worked as a singer at the Basilica di San Lorenzo in Florence in the service of the Medici family from 1515 to 1520 , succeeded Bernardo Pisano as director of the boys' choir at the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and is with Philippe Verdelot also worked in the Baptistery of San Giovanni there.
- Georg Rhau had to leave Leipzig in 1520 due to his support for the Reformation and was employed as a schoolmaster in Eisleben and later in Hildburghausen .
- Konrad Rupff , who came into direct contact with the Wittenberg movement , met Andreas Bodenstein in 1520 .
- Arnolt Schlick may have been involved in the coronation of Charles I as organist in 1520 , although his description of the event leaves some ambiguity open.
- Ludwig Senfl remained in the court chapel after the death of King Maximilian I (1519) until it was dissolved in 1520. After the dissolution, Senfl was active in various parts of the German Empire: for example in Augsburg , as editor of the Liber Selectarum Cantionum ( Grimm and Wirsung , 1520). This is the first motets pressure north of the Alps in choir book format, the Cardinal Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg dedicated and the Senfl addition to his own works including motets by Pierre de La Rue , Heinrich Isaac , Josquin des Prés , Jacob Obrecht and Jean Mouton takes that reflect the repertoire of the imperial court orchestra.
- Claudin de Sermisy works as a clergyman in the Diocese of Noyon and - like Antonius Divitis and Jean Mouton - as a singer in the court orchestra of King Francis I of France. He probably also took part in the festive masses that are held on the occasion of the meeting of King Francis with the English King Henry VIII at the Camp du Drap d'Or from July 7th to 10th, 1520.
- Adrian Willaert , who is Kapellmeister in the service of the Milanese Cardinal Ippolito I. d'Este , is accepted into the court orchestra by his brother Alfonso in September 1520, after the sudden death of his employer.
Instrumental music
Lute
- Capirola Lute Book (compiled by a student of Vincenzo Capirola)
Virginal
- Unknown Artist - 10 Works for Virginal or Organ : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
Vocal music
Spiritually
- Andrea Antico (Ed.)
- Motet collection Motetti novi e chanzoni franciose a quatro sopra doi : sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Motet collection Motetti novi, Libro 2 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Messensammlung Missarum, Book 2 : Notes and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Antoine Brumel - Antiphon Da pacem, Domine : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Josquin Desprez - Motet Benedicta es, coelorum regina : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Costanzo Festa - Motet Maria Virgo, prescripta : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Jacotin Le Bel - Motette Interveniat pro rege nostro to 4 parts (published 1519 and 1520; also published as Interveniat pro Gabrieli 1526)
- Bernardo Pisano - Musica di messer Bernardo Pisano sopra le canzone del Petrarcha (published by Ottaviano Petrucci in Fossombrone )
- Ludwig Senfl (Ed.) - Motet collection Liber Selectarum Cantionum ( Grimm and Wirsung )
- Various artists - Liber selectarum cantionum quas vulgo mutetas appellant : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Worldly
- Pierre de la Rue - Chanson Leal schray tante : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Publications
- Johannes Galliculus - Isagoge de compositione cantus (Leipzig 1520 and Wittenberg 1553; as "Libellus de compositione cantus", Wittenberg 1538)
- Georg Rhau - Enchiridion musicae mensuralis : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Born
Exact date of birth unknown
- Joan Brudieu , Catalan composer and church musician († 1591 )
Born around 1520
- Krzysztof Borek , Polish composer († after 1573 )
- Girolamo Cavazzoni , Italian organist and composer († after 1577 )
- Benedictus de Drusina , lutenist († between 1578 and 1582 )
- Ludovicus Episcopius , Franco-Flemish composer, singer and cleric († 1595 )
- Vincenzo Galilei , Italian lutenist, music theorist and composer († 1591 )
- Sigmund Hemmel , Württemberg composer and court conductor († 1565 )
- Jacob Praetorius the Elder , German organist and composer († 1586 )
- Adrian Le Roy , French lutenist, music publisher and composer († 1598 )
- Stephan Zirler , German composer and court official († 1568 )
Died
Died around 1520
- Johannes Galliculus , German composer and music theorist (* around 1490 )
- Adam Rener , Franco-Flemish composer and singer (* around 1482 )
- Erhart Öglin , German printer specializing in sheet music printing (* around 1470 )
