Loyset Compère
Life
Born: 1445?
Died: 16 August 1518
Biography Compère's birthdate, formerly given as c.1450, is now estimated from the dating of some pieces to the 1460's. He was employed at Milan 1474-1477, alongside Johannes Martini and Gaspar van Weerbeke and next surfaces in 1486 as a singer in the French court of Charles VIII whom he accompanied on his 1494-5 Italian campaign. He retired to St. Quentin where he was buried.
Besides chansons, motets, 2 masses and some half dozen Magnificats, he is known for writing motetti missales or 'substitution masses' in which motets took the place of the Ordinary.
View the Wikipedia article on Loyset Compère.
List of choral works
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Publications
External links
- Works by Loyset Compère in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)