The decade of the 1510s in music (years 1510–1519) involved some significant events.
Events
1513: Jacques Champion replaces Noel Bauldeweyn as magister cantorum at St Rombouts, Mechelen. 1517: March – Heinrich Finck sends greetings from Mühldorf, Bavaria, to the humanist Joachim Vadian. April 15 – Juan García de Basurto is hired as a singer by the cathedral chapter of Tarazona, at an annual salary of 1200 sueldos. June – Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego joins the pifferi of the Venetian government as a "contralto". Sixt Dietrich is forced to leave Freiburg because of debts, but in November is appointed by the cathedral chapter in Konstanz. 1518: Composer Ludwig Senfl loses a toe in a hunting accident.
Publications
1511: Franciscus Bossinensis – (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci) Arnolt Schlick – , the first treatise on organ-making in German Sebastian Virdung – , published in Basel, the first European treatise entirely devoted to the subject of musical instruments. 1512: Arnolt Schlick – , a collection of organ and lute pieces 1515: Antoine de Févin – Masses (Fossombrone: Ottaviano Petrucci), also includes one mass by Pierre de la Rue (Quarti toni) 1517: Andreas Ornithoparchus – Musicae activae micrologus (Leipzig). Sebastian z Felsztyna – (Kraków: Johann Haller). 1518: The Medici Codex (manuscript) Franchinus Gaffurius – . Milan.
Compositions
1510: Josquin des Prez assembles or composes , a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, and it becomes the most popular of his masses in the 16th century. 1513: Heinrich Isaac – , motet celebrating the meeting in December of Maximilian I's Chancellor, Cardinal Lang, and the newly elected Pope Leo X 1514: Costanzo Festa – , funeral ode for Anne of Brittany, Queen of France 1519: Adrian Willaert – , setting of Horace's fifth epistle, for four voices
Births
1510
Juan Bermudo, Spanish music theorist (died 1565) Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance (died 1566) probable – Loys Bourgeois, French composer, famous for his Protestant hymn tunes (died c.1561) probable – Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola, Neapolitan composer, famous for his villanescas and villanellas in the Neapolitan style (died 1592)
1511
date unknown – Nicola Vicentino, Italian music theorist and composer (died 1575/1576)
1513
February 14 – Domenico Ferrabosco, Italian composer and singer (died 1574) May 16 – Antonfrancesco Doni, Italian writer, academic and musician (died 1574)
1516
probable – Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer (died 1565)
1517
January 17 – Antonio Scandello, Italian composer and instrumentalist
January 31 or March 22 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Venetian theorist (died 1590)
Deaths
1513: January – Hans Folz, German Meistersinger, barber, and surgeon (born ?before 1440) 1517: March 26 – Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1445)