Composers

Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Monteverdi and the madrigal From the fourteenth century onwards, Italy saw the successive appearance of two forms of madrigal: the first lasted only a century (from 1320 to 1420 approximately), and the second was born in the sixteenth century (around 1520). A poetic and vocal genre, mainly secular...

Pierre Sandrin

Pierre Sandrin, born Pierre Regnault, was a French Renaissance composer. He was a famous composer in his time. He was in the service of François I, Henri II and Hippolyte d’Este around 1550-1560, and Hippolyte d’Este around 1550-1560. He is the author of fifty songs for four voices, on...

Jacob Obrecht

Jacob Obrecht (* 1457 or 1458 in Ghent/Belgium; † shortly before 1 August 1505 in Ferrara/Italy) was a Franco-Flemish composer, singer and cleric of the Renaissance. He was the only child of the Ghent city trumpeter Willem (Guillermus) Hobrecht (1430/35 – 22 November 1488). The approximate date of birth...

Robert Ballard

Robert Ballard (* about 1575 in Paris (?); † after 1650) was a French lutenist and composer. He was the son of the publisher Robert Ballard Senior (c.1527–1588), the head of the well-known music publishers “Le Roy & Ballard”, founded in 1551 with cousin Adrian Le Roy (a notable...

Llibre Vermell de Montserrat

The Llibre Vermell de Montserrat (Catalan for “Red Book of Montserrat”) is a collection of late medieval songs and liturgical texts. The manuscript from the 14th century is still kept today in the Montserrat monastery near Barcelona in Catalonia. The manuscript was written around 1399 and originally contained 172...
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