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Guillaume Dufay commenced a meteoric music career as a straightforward choirboy at Cambrai Cathedral in 1409. Before his loss of life, Dufay would business lead the papal chapel, consort with popes and dukes, collaborate with Donatello and Brunelleschi, and become reckoned the initial author of the Renaissance. His birthdate is …

In 1480, the Neapolitan theorist Johannes Tinctoris listed Jacob Obrecht (1450-1505) among the modern composers who had raised the practice of music virtually to artistic perfection. In Obrecht’s life time, the transmitting of his music transported his popularity across European countries: when the composer was just thirty, and before he …

The birth of 1 of the very most renowned singers and composers of the complete fifteenth hundred years remains unfortunately shrouded in secret. Though afterwards poetic and archival resources confirm Johannes Ockeghem’s birthplace, in the French-speaking province of Hainaut (modern-day Belgium, but in those days an integral part of the …