1520s in music

The decade of the 1520s in music (years 1520-1529) involved some significant compositions.

Events

• Kungliga Hovkapellet is first recorded from this year.

Publications

• 1520: Capirola Lutebook is compiled from the works of Vincenzo Capirola
• 1525: My Lady Carey's Dompe is written for harpsichord by an unknown composer.
• 1529: Martin Agricola – Musica instrumentalis deudsch, a description of the musical instruments common in Germany at the time.

Classical music

Births

1520

• Andrea Amati, Italian violin maker, who stands as the first of the Cremona school (d. c.1578)
• Christoph Fischer or Vischer (c.1518/1520), hymnist (died 1598)
• Vincenzo Galilei (c.1520), lutenist who also composed other music (died 1591)

1521

• Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer of Italian madrigals (died 1603)

1525

• March 4 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Roman composer, primarily of sacred music (died 1594)

1529

• probable – Jacobus Vaet, Franco-Flemish composer (died 1567)

Deaths

• 1521: August 27 – Josquin des Prez, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1450-1455)
• 1522: October 30 – Jean Mouton, Franch composer (born c.1459)
• 1525: probable – Arnolt Schlick, German organist and composer (born c.1460)