Firminus Caron

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Firminus Caron (Philippe Caron) (fl. 1460–1475) was a French composer, and likely a singer, of the Renaissance. While highly successful as a composer and influential, especially on the development of imitative counterpoint, and while numerous compositions of his survive, he is almost unique in there being an almost complete absence of direct biographical information about him. Most of what is known about his life and career is inferred. Most musical manuscripts give his name only as "Caron." But his contemporary, the music theorist Johannes Tinctoris names him in three different treatises as "Firminus Caron" and the Vatican choirbook San Pietro B80 has "F. Caron" written above its copy of his Missa L'homme armé. Attempts in the past to identify him with people named Philippe Caron and Jean Caron are therefore to be discarded. Furthermore, a reference to "Firminus Caron" as primus musicus at Amiens cathedral in 1422 has now been shown to be misdated: his activity in Amiens is attested by numerous documents dating from 1459 to 1475 (when his father died). A document of 1473 names him "maistre Fremin le Caron," implying that he had a university master's degree, and that of 1475 names him "sire Fremin le Caron," meaning that he had been ordained a priest. Some writers of the time, including Tinctoris, praised Caron. Most of Caron's music survives in Italian manuscripts, leading to the hypothesis that he may have spent some time in Italy, a common destination for composers from n

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Firminus Caron - Twilight of the Middle Ages

Caron: Masses & Chansons

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Firminus Caron Masses & Chansons, Vol. 1

Twilight Of The Middle Ages

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Romaria

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Leonardo da Vinci, la musique secrète

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Firminus Caron: Missa Clemens et benigna (Arr. for Guitar)

Le Chansonnier Cordiforme

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Missa L'homme Armé

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Missa Accueilly M'a La Belle

The Splendour Of Florence With A Burgundian Resonance

Ottaviano dei Petrucci: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton

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