Jean Mouton

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Jean Mouton (c. 1459–1522) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was famous both for his motets, which are among the most refined of the time, and for being the teacher of Adrian Willaert, one of the founders of the Venetian School. He was born either in 1459 or earlier, but records of his early life, as is so often the case with Renaissance composers, are scanty. Most likely he was from the village of Holluigue (now Haut-Wignes), near Boulogne-sur-Mer. He probably began his first job, singer and teacher at the collegiate church in Nesle (southeast of Amiens) in 1477, and in 1483 was made maître de chapelle there. Sometime around this time he became a priest, and in 1500 he was in charge of choirboys at the cathedral in Amiens. In 1501 he was in Grenoble, teaching choirboys, but he left the next year, most likely entering the service of Queen Anne of Brittany, and in 1509 he was granted a position again in Grenoble which he could hold in absentia. Mouton was now the principal composer for the French court. For the remainder of his life he was employed by the French court in one capacity or another, often writing music for state occasions -- weddings, coronations, papal elections, births, and deaths. Mouton composed a motet, Christus vincit, for the election of Leo X as pope in 1513. Leo evidently liked Mouton's music, for he rewarded him with an honorary title on the occasion of a motet he composed for the pope in 1515; the pope made this award during a meeting in Bo

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Pieces in a Modern Style 2

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So You Think You Don't Like Classical Music? Vol. 1

Vivat Rex!

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Nesciens Mater: Choral Works of Jean Moulton

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Choral Masterpieces Of The Renaissance

Art & Music: Riemenschneider - Music of His Time

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Christmas

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Pieces In A Modern Style Vol.2

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

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Jean Mouton: Missa Dictes moy toutes voz pensées

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The Spy's Choirbook

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Perfect Polyphony

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