Thomas Appleby appointed organist and choirmaster at Lincoln Cathedral
1539:
Joan Brudieu appointed maestro di capilla at la Seu d'Urgell Cathedral in Catalonia, a position he held until his death (bar a couple of gaps) until his death in 1591.
Publications
1530
Madrigali de diversi musici: libro primo de la Serena (Rome:
Valerio Dorico). The first book of madrigals to be identified by that name. The majority of pieces are by
Philippe Verdelot.
Hans Gerle - 2nd collection of lute music Tabulatur auff die Laudten published in Nuremberg. It included arrangements of pieces by Jean Mouton, Josquin and Jacob Obrecht
First book of motets for five voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Girolamo Scotto)
Pierre de Manchicourt – Book 14: 19 Motets for four voices (Paris: Pierre Attaingnant & Hubert Jullet), the last volume in Attaingnant's motet series and the only one dedicated to a single composer
Classical music
1530
We-Liang-Hu composed music for a play by 14th-century poet
Gao Ming.
Sacred music
1533
Nicolas Gombert – Cuis colis Ausoniam, motet for six voices to a text by Nicolaus Grudius, celebrating the treaty signed in Bologna by
Emperor Charles V,
Pope Clement VII, and several other Italian rulers
1539
Johannes Heugel – Consolamini, popule meus, for eight voices, probably the earliest German composition for double choir[4]
^Wilfried Brennecke, "Heugel, Johannes", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by
Stanley Sadie and
John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).