Johannes Mangon (c. 1525 in

Liège Liège ( ; ; ; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east o ...

– 1578 in

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) was a Francophone composer from the

Spanish Netherlands The Spanish Netherlands (; ; ; ) (historically in Spanish: , the name "Flanders" was used as a '' pars pro toto'') was the Habsburg Netherlands ruled by the Spanish branch of the Habsburgs from 1556 to 1714. They were a collection of States of t ...

. He was selected while a boy in Liége to join the choir at the Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, that is to say

in modern Germany. He rose to become maître de chapelle. Among his surviving works are 20 masses. He died of the plague in 1578 and was succeeded by Lambertus de Monte (Liége, d.1606) and then Michael Wilhelm (

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1580–1610).

Works, editions and recordings

* ''O rex orbis: Officium in festo sancti Karoli''. Vespers for 28 January on the eve of the Feast of Saint Charles – works by Johannes Mangon, Lambertus de Monte, Michael Wilhelm,

Roland de Lassus Orlando di Lasso ( various other names; probably – 14 June 1594) was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lassus stands with William Byrd, Giovanni Pierlui ...

, Exsultemus, Eric Rice. Musique en Wallonie 2013Musique en Wallonie sort 3 nouveaux CD
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References

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