Jacobus Clemens non Papa

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Jacobus Clemens non Papa (also Jacques Clément or Jacob Clemens non Papa) (c. 1510 to 1515 – 1555 or 1556) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a prolific composer in many of the current styles, and was especially famous for his polyphonic settings of the psalms in Dutch known as the Souterliedekens. Nothing is known of his early life, and even the details of the years of his artistic maturity are sketchy. He may have been born in Middelburg, Zeeland, though the evidence is contradictory; certainly he was from somewhere in modern Belgium or the Netherlands. The first unambiguous reference to him is from the late 1530s, when Pierre Attaingnant published a collection of his chansons in Paris. Between March 1544 and June 1545 he worked at the Bruges cathedral, and shortly thereafter he began a business relationship with Tielman Susato, the publisher in Antwerp, which was to last for the rest of his life. From 1545 until 1549 he was probably choirmaster at the court of Charles V, where he preceded Nicolas Gombert. In 1550 he was employed by the Marian Brotherhood in 's-Hertogenbosch. Other towns in which he may have lived and worked include Ieper, Dordrecht, and Leiden. His nickname "non Papa" was jokingly added to distinguish him either from the contemporaneous Pope Clement VII — "Jacob Clemens — but not the Pope" — or from the poet Jacobus Papa, also from Ieper. It is possible also that the name reflected Protestant sympathies on Clemens' part. Details ab

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Baroque Music - Cabezon, A. / Padilla, J.G. De / Clemens Non Papa, J. / Laba, A. (Baroque Mexico, Vol. 2)

At the Sign of the Crumhorn: Flemish Songs and Dance Music

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Art & Music: Bruegel - Music of His Time

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French Chansons (The Scholars of London)

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Choral Recital: Monteverdi Choir - Morales / Victoria, T.L. / Clements Non Papa / Mouton (Pilgrimage To Santiago)

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Requiem & Motets

Song of Songs

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Renaissance Masterpieces

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Chansons au luth

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Nowel, Nowel!

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Pilgrimage to Santiago

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Pilgrimage to Santiago (The Monteverdi Choir feat. conductor: John Eliot Gardiner)

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