1470s in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the 1470s.
Events
- 1470
- 5 August â Guillaume Du Fay purchases some land in his homeland of Beersel to provide an income to establish his obiit.[1]
- October â Antoine Busnois first becomes a member of the Burgundian chapel as a demi-chappelain (he would be promoted to full chaplain in 1472).[2]
- November â Antoine Busnois is paid for "services ... of which the duke [of Burgundy] wished no further mention to be made in the accounts"âprobably a delicate diplomatic mission recruiting new musicians from another court.[2]
- Blind organist, harpist, lutenist, and fiddle player Conrad Paumann tours Italy, where his playing on various instruments causes a sensation at the court of the Gonzagas in Mantua.[3]
- 1471
- After fifteen years in the humble position of clerc in the Burgundian court chapel, Robert Morton is promoted to chappelain, a position in which he would remain until early 1476.[4]
- 1475 â Organ builder Lorenzo da Prato completes his masterpiece, the organ in cornu Epistolae of the San Petronio Basilica in Bologna.[5]
Bands formed
- 1479 â The Gosudarevï Pevchiye dâ²Yaki (literally Rulerâs Singing Clerks, the court choir of Moscow), is established by Ivan the Great.[6]
Publications
- 1470 â Approximate date of the completion of the Buxheim Organ Book
- 1471 â Professional scribe Clara Hätzlerin completes her Liederbuch in Augsburg.[7]
- ca. 1473 â The Königsteiner Liederbuch is completed.
- 1475 â Johannes Tinctoris, Terminorum musicae diffinitorium, compiled by this year.
- 1476 â Johannes Tinctoris, Liber de natura et proprietate tonorum, completed 6 November.
- 1477 â Johannes Tinctoris, Liber de arte contrapuncti, completed 11 October.
Compositions
- 1470 â Guillaume Du Fay, Requiem Mass, for three voices (lost)
- ca.1470â73 â Guillaume Du Fay, Missa Ave Regina Celorum
- 1472 â Loyset Compère, Omnium bonorum plena, motet, possibly written for the dedication of Cambrai Cathedral on 2 July.
- 1473 â Johannes Martini, Perfunde coeli rore, motet in four voices, composed for the wedding of Duke Ercole I d'Este and Eleonora d'Aragona[8]
- ca. 1476 â Alexander Agricola, Gaudent in celis, motet
Births
- 1470
- 9 April â Giovanni Angelo Testagrossa, Italian lutenist, singer, and teacher (d. December 1530)
- Approximately this year
- Elzéar Genet, dit Carpentras, French composer (d. 1548)
- Antoine de Févin, French composer (d. 1511 or 1512)
- Mathurin Forestier, French composer
- Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer (d. 1528)
- Michele Pesenti, Italian composer and lutenist (d. after 1524)
- Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Italian composer of frottole (d. after 1535)
Deaths
- 1470
- 25 February â Richard de Bellengues, dit Cardot, French singer and composer (b. ca. 1380)
- 1473
- 24 January â Conrad Paumann, German organist, harpist, lutenist, fiddle player, and composer (b. ca.1410)
- 1474
- 27 November â Guillaume Du Fay, French composer (b. ca. 1397; illness)
- 1479
- After 13 March â Robert Morton (composer) (b. ca. 1430)