Pierre Passereau

In 1509 this French chanson composer was singing for the Duke of Angoulme who later on became Francois I. Between 1525 and 1530 Passereau was most likely a tenor at Cambrai Cathedral though this isn’t specific. He was essential being a contributor towards the corpus of chanson books provided the printing by Attaingnant of 1 volume comprising functions by Janequin and Passereau an unusual practice with this historic era. Preliminary printings of his functions might have been carried out in the bequest of Francois. Though historically Passereau’s chansons are believed light-weight his works had been quite popular within their day. It’s been conveyed that his “Il est bel et bon” was actually sung around the roads of Venice. The recognition of his tunes might have been because of the characteristic energetic rhythms, common topics and usage of ribald vocabulary. A lot of his chansons had been printed in a number of editions and transcribed for additional instrumetns once again attesting to the actual fact that his chansons had been important and well-known at least within their day.