| Year |
Event |
| 1502 |
First Book of Masses by Josquin des Pres published by Ottaviano de Petrucci. |
| 1504 |
Francesco di Bernardo Corteccia, Italian organist and composer born. |
| 1505 |
Jakob Obrecht, Dutch composer, dies. |  |
| 1505 |
Thomas Tallis, English composer, born. |
| 1505 |
Matheus Le Maistre, Walloon composer born |
| 1506 |
Alexander Agricola, Flemish composer, dies. |
| 1507 |
Balint Bakfark, Hungarian - Polish composer and lutanist, born. |
| 1510 |
Louis Bourgeois, French musician, born. |
| 1511 |
Johannes de Tintoris dies. |
| 1511 |
Arnolt Schlick:"Speigel der Orgelmacher und Organisten on organ building and playing. |
| 1512 |
Second Book of Masses by Josquin des Pres. |
| 1512 |
Erhart Deglin, music printer of Augsburg, publishes the "Liederbuch zu vier Stimmen" |
| 1513 |
Domenico Ferrabosco, Italian singer and composer, born. |
| 1514 |
Gasper van Weerbecke, Flemish composer, dies. |
| 1516 |
Cyprien de Rore, Dutch composer, born. |
| 1516 |
Josquin des Pres; Third book of Masses |  |
| 1516 |
Engraving of music on plates used for the first time in Italy |
| 1517 |
Heinrich Isaak, German Dutch composer, dies. |
| 1517 |
Ludwig Senfl made court composer to Emperor Maximillian I in Isaak's place. |
| 1518 |
Ihan Gero, Flemish composer born |
| 1520 |
Vincenzo Galilei, Italian lutanist and composer, father of the great astronomer Galileo Galilei, born. |
| 1521 |
Josquin des Pres, Dutch composer, dies. |
| 1522 |
Franchino Gafori dies. |
| 1522 |
Richard Edwards, English composer and poet, born. |
| 1523 |
Hans Judenkunig of Vienna publishes firrst manual of lute playing. |
| 1524 |
Johann Walther produces in collaboration with Martin Luther the hymnal "Geystlich Gesangk-Buchleyn". |
| 1525 |
Giovanni Pierluigi da Pelestrina, Italian composer, is born. |
| 1526 |
Hans Judenkunig, Austrian lutanist and composer, dies.
|
| 1527 |
Flemish composer Adrian Willaert made maestro di capella at St. Mark's, Venice |
| 1528 |
Martin Agricola "Eyn kurtz deudsche Musica" published. |
| 1529 |
Bartolommeo Spontone, Italian, Madrigal composer born |
| 1530 |
Elias Nikolaus Ammerbach German organist and composer born |
| 1530 |
Andrea Amati, founder of the Italian family of violin makers, born |
| 1531 |
Guillaume Costeley, French - Scottish composer, born |
| 1532 |
Orlando di Lasso, Dutch composer, born |
| 1533 |
First Madrigals by Phillippe Jacques Verdelot, Arcadelt and others printed in Rome |
| 1533 |
Johannes Ott, German printer:"121 neue Lieder,von Berumbten dieser Kunst Gesetzt" published at Nuremberg |
| 1534 |
Fernando Las Infantas, Spanish composer and theologian, born (death approx 1609) |
| 1535 |
Giaches de Wert, Dutch composer, born |
| 1535 |
Pietro Vinci, Italian composer, born |
| 1536 |
Heinrich Finck's collection of songs "Schone auserlesene Lieder" published five years after his death |
| 1536 |
First song book with lute accompaniment printed in Spain |
| 1537 |
First conservatories of music are founded in Naples for boys, in Venice for girls |
| 1537 |
Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and composer dies |
| 1539 |
Georg Foster publishes "Frische teutsche Liedlein" a group of secular songs |
| 1540 |
Orfeo Vecchi, Italian composer, born |
| 1541 |
Wulfard Hellinck, Flemish composer dies |
| 1542 |
Jakob Meiland, German composer, born |
| 1543 |
Wiliam Byrd, English composer, born |  |
| 1543 |
Ludwig Senfl, German composer, dies |
| 1544 |
Benedictus Ducis, German composer, dies |
| 1545 |
John Taverner, English composer, dies |
| 1547 |
Swiss Musical theorist, Henricus Glareanus publishes his work on the 12 church modes,"dodekachordon" |
| 1547 |
Louis Bourgois:Psalter |
| 1548 |
Tomas Luis de Victoria, Spanish church composer, born. |
| 1550 |
Guilio Caccini, Italian composer and singer, born. |
| 1550 |
John Marbeck:" the Booke of Common Praier noted", first musical setting of English liturgy |
Music History Timeline - 1501 to 1550
