1495

Events in 1495 2

• 1495 – 1545 Costanzo Festa Italian Renaissance composer Costanzo Festa was an Italian composer active at the papal chapel who wrote some of the earliest Italian madrigals alongside sacred works of considerable quality.
• 1495 – 1560 Nicolas Gombert Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer Nicolas Gombert was a pupil of Josquin who developed a dense, imitative polyphonic style that dominated European sacred music in the mid-16th century.