Illustration from the title page of Arnolt Schlick's Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten (1511), the first German treatise on organ building and performance
1511:
Franciscus Bossinensis – Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto, Libro secundo (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci)
Arnolt Schlick – Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten, the first treatise on organ-making in German
Sebastian Virdung – Musica getutscht und angezogen, published in Basel, the first European treatise entirely devoted to the subject of musical instruments.
1512: Arnolt Schlick – Tabulaturen etlicher lobgesang, a collection of organ and lute pieces
1513: January – Hans Folz, German Meistersinger, barber, and surgeon (born ?before 1440)
1517: March 26 – Heinrich Isaac, Franco-Flemish composer (born c.1445)
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