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Compère Guilleri, Chanson Ancienne
Compere or Compère may refer to: French surname *Loyset Compère (c. 1445–1518), French composer of the Renaissance *Claude Antoine Compère (1774–1812), French general in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars *Louis Fursy Henri Compère (1768–1833), French general in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars *René Compère (1906–1969), Belgian jazz trumpeter *Adéodat Compère-Morel (1872–1941), French Socialist politician and agronomist *Léon Compère-Léandre (c. 1874–1936), Martiniquais shoemaker, survivor of the Mount Pelée eruption in 1902 Other uses * Compere (host), a master of ceremonies * ''Les Compères'', a 1983 French comedy film {{disambiguation, surname French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loyset Compère
Loyset Compère ( – 16 August 1518) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. Of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, he was one of the most significant composers of motets and chansons of that era, and one of the first musicians to bring the light Italianate Renaissance style to France. Life His exact place of birth is not known, but documents of the time assign him to a family from the province of Artois (in modern France), and suggest he may have been born in Hainaut (in modern Belgium). At least one source from Milan indicates he described himself as coming from Arras, also in Artois. Both the date and probable place of birth are extremely close to those of Josquin des Prez; indeed the area around the current French-Belgian border produced an astonishing number of excellent composers in the 15th and 16th centuries, composers whose fame spread throughout Europe. Often these composers are known as the Franco-Flemish or Netherlandish School). In the 1470s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |