Lupus Hellinck

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Lupus Hellinck (also Wulfaert) (1493 or 1494 – c. January 14, 1541) was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a prominent composer of masses, as well as German chorales and motets. Although he was a Roman Catholic all of his life, his music shows evidence of sympathy for the Protestant Reformation, and three of his motets—including a famous setting of In te domine speravi—were probably inspired by the prison writings of the martyred reformer Girolamo Savonarola. Hellinck was probably born in Axel. Little else is known about him until he appears as a choirboy in Bruges at St. Donatian on March 24, 1506. He left in 1511 to go to school, returning to St. Donatian in 1513 as a cleric, where he stayed until 1515. Until recently, nothing was known of his activities for the next four years, but in 1989 some records from the Vatican archives were published that showed that he spent this time in Rome. One of these documents, dated April 1518, gave his age as 24, which gives a birth date of 1493 or 1494. During this time he was a member of the household of Pope Leo X, and around 1518 he was ordained as a priest.[1] A further confusion, not definitively solved, is that music theorist and writer Vincenzo Galilei, father of the astronomer, included a "Lupus" from northern Europe in a list of distinguished musicians in the 1513 court of Leo X; however, Vincenzo was writing several decades later.[2] By June 1518 Hellinck was probably in Ferrara, in the employ of Sigismondo d'Este

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At The Sign Of The Crumhorn: Flemish Songs And Dance Music

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Hellinck - Newe Deudsche Geistliche Gesenge (Arr. for Dobro)

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Art & Music: Bruegel - Music Of His Time

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At The Sign Of The Crumhorn - Flemish Songs & Dance Music

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At the Sign of the Crumhorn

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De Leidse Koorboeken, Vol. VI

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Sign of the Crumhorn - Flemish

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At the Sign of the Crumhorn (Convivium Musicum Gothenburgense)

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Johannes Lupi & Lupus Hellinck

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Hellinck: Missa Surrexit pastor / Lupi: Te Deum & Motets

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um Gothenbergense, Berger & Edlund (Naxos 2000)

The Leiden Choirbooks - CD 11 - [Egidius Quartet & College]

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