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'''Aliases:''' Jean Escatefer dit Cousin
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Of French or Flemish origin.
* 1446-1448: Singer at Duke Charles I of Bourbon's court at Moulins
 
* 1461-1474: French royal chapel
* Music theorist and composer [[Johannes Tinctoris]] describes Cousin, along with [[Petrus de Domatro]], as composers ''non parvae auctoritatis'' (of no small authority)
* Cousin's ''Missa nigrarum'' appears to have been lost, though an excerpt is referenced by [[Johannes Tinctoris|Tinctoris]]. The title is thought to have been mistranscribed from either ''Nigra sum'' or ''Nisi granum''
(See entry in New Grove Dictionary of Music)


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Aliases: Jean Escatefer dit Cousin

Life

Born: before 1425

Died: after 1475

Biography

  • 1446-1448: Singer at Duke Charles I of Bourbon's court at Moulins
  • 1461-1474: French royal chapel
  • Music theorist and composer Johannes Tinctoris describes Cousin, along with Petrus de Domatro, as composers non parvae auctoritatis (of no small authority)
  • Cousin's Missa nigrarum appears to have been lost, though an excerpt is referenced by Tinctoris. The title is thought to have been mistranscribed from either Nigra sum or Nisi granum

(See entry in New Grove Dictionary of Music)

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