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Charles D'Argentil
4+ albums
frenchfrance16th centuryrenaissance
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Charles d’Argentille (also encountered in sources as d’Argentil / Argentilly, and in variant spellings) is a Renaissance singer-composer whose securely documentable activity sits in the first half of the sixteenth century and is closely associated with Rome and the Papal musical establishment. The surviving musical footprint that can be tied to specific witnesses centres on large-scale Latin liturgical settings: a Missa pro defunctis (Requiem) and two Passion settings (Passio Domini secundum Matthaeum and Passio Domini secundum Joannem), each preserved with explicit attributions in the Cappella Giulia choirbook Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Capp. Giulia XII,3, copied in 1543 for use at St Peter’s. In that manuscript, the Passions occupy early folios and the Requiem is copied near the end; the same volume is now digitally accessible via the Vatican Library’s DigiVatLib platform, allowing direct consultation of the principal source that transmits his music. Modern reference ecosystems and scholarship consistently treat him as a French figure active in Italy, but beyond this broad profile, biographical particulars (birthplace, exact career chronology, and circumstances of death) remain difficult to state without overclaiming, because the most detailed modern narrative treatments are either paywalled or embedded in specialist studies rather than open-access dictionary articles. In contemporary reception, he has long been a name known mainly to specialists in
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Missa pro defunctis: IV. Pie Jesu
952Missa pro defunctis: V. Sanctus
663Missa pro defunctis: VII. Communion
534Missa pro defunctis: II. Kyrie
355Missa pro defunctis: I. Introit
336Missa pro defunctis: III. Séquence
337Missa pro defunctis: VI. Agnus Dei
288Missa pro defunctis: VIII. Répons
239Libro primo de la Serena: Donna s'io non vi veggio
510Libro primo de la Serena: Madonna io me pensava
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