Loyset Compère (c.1445-1518)
- Missa in Nativitate Deus Noster Jesu Christe
Performers: Orlаndo Consort
Further info: Loyset Compère, Orlando Consort
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French composer. According to the poet Jean Molinet, Compère belonged to
a family from St Omer, in the county of Artois; a Milanese document of
1476, moreover, describes him as a cleric of Arras, also in Artois.
During the mid-1470s Compère belonged to the cappella of Galeazzo Maria
Sforza, Duke of Milan. Later he was a singer in the service of Charles
VIII of France until at least 1498. After serving as dean of the church
of St. Gery in Cambrai (1498-1500), he was provost of the collegiate
church of St. Pierre in Douai until about 1504. From 1491 he also held a
canonry at the collegiate church in St. Quentin. His extant works
include Masses, mass sections, motetti, missales, a Magnificat, motets,
motet-chansons, and frottolas. L. Finscher ed. his works in the Corpus
Mensurabilis Musicae series (1958-72). He was one of the leading chanson
and motet composers of the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
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