Antoine Brumel

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Antoine Brumel (c. 1460 – 1512 or 1513) was a French composer. He was one of the first renowned French members of the Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance, and, after Josquin Desprez, was one of the most influential composers of his generation. Little is known about his early life, but he was probably born west of Chartres, perhaps in the town of Brunelles, near to Nogent-le-Rotrou, making him one of the first of the Netherlandish composers who was actually French. He sang at Notre-Dame de Chartres from 9 August 1483 until 1486, and subsequently held posts at St Peter's in Geneva (until 1492) and Laon (around 1497) before becoming choirmaster to the boys at Notre-Dame de Paris from 1498 to 1500, and choirmaster to Alfonso I d'Este at Ferrara from 1506, replacing the famous composer Jacob Obrecht who had died of the plague there the previous year. The chapel there was disbanded in 1510, after which he evidently stayed in Italy; several documents connect him with churches in Faenza and Mantua, where he probably died in 1512 or shortly after. He is known to have written at least one work after his dismissal from Ferrara (the Missa de beata virgine), and he may have still have been alive in 1513 since there is a mention in a treatise of Vincenzo Galilei that Brumel was one of a group of composers who met with Pope Leo X in that year; however since Vincenzo was writing more than a generation later and reporting second-hand, and no other corroborating evidence has been found, t

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Hilliard Live 3

Brumel: Mass/Sequentia "Dies Irae"

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Terra Tremuit

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Ockeghem: Requiem / Missa Fors seulement

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Memento Mei

Brumel: Missa De Beata Virgine / Ave Virgo Gloriosa / Ave, Ancilla Trinitatis

The Art Of The Netherlands

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Brumel: Sub tuum praesidium

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My Beloved's Voice: Sacred Songs of Love

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Anne Boleyn's Songbook: Music & Passions of a Tudor Queen

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Missa Et ecce terrae motus: Kyrie

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