Editing Music editor (section)

===Early history of the profession===
The use of music editors dates to the very beginning of published music in Europe in the late 15th century; although individuals working in that capacity were usually not named.<ref>Lewis Hammond, pp. 14–15</ref> One of the earliest known music editors was the [[Venice|Venetian]] [[Dominican Order|Dominican friar]] Petrus Castellanus (1440–1552) who worked in that capacity for the publisher [[Ottaviano Petrucci]] in the first half of the 16th century.<ref name="fifteen">Lewis Hammond, p. 15</ref> The Italian composer [[Francesco de Layolle]] was another early known music editor;  working in that capacity for the [[Lyon]], [[France]] based publisher [[Jacques Moderne]].<ref name="fifteen"/>