Online Encyclopedia

ARCADELT, or ARCHADELT, JACOB (c. 151...

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 341 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

ARCADELT, or ARCHADELT, JACOB (c. 1514—c. 1556)  , a
See also:
Netherlands composer, of the early
See also:
part of the
See also:
Golden Age . In 1539 he
See also:
left a position at Florence to teach the choristers of St Peter's, Rome, and became one of the papal singers in 1540 . He was a prolific church composer, but the
See also:
works published in his
See also:
Italian time consist entirely of madrigals, five books of which, published at Venice, probably gave a
See also:
great stimulus to the beginnings of the Venetian school of composition . In 1555 he left Italy and entered the service of Cardihal Charles of
See also:
Lorraine, duke of Guise, and after this published three volumes of masses, besides contributing motets to various collections . The
See also:
Ave Maria, ascribed to him and transcribed as a pianoforte piece by Liszt, does not seem to be traced to an earlier source than its edition by
See also:
Sir Henry Bishop, which has possibly the same kind of origin in Arcadelt as the hymn tune " Palestrina " has in the delicate and subtle Gloria of Palestrina's Magnificat Quinli Toni, the fifth in his first
See also:
Book of Magnificats .

End of Article: ARCADELT, or ARCHADELT, JACOB (c. 1514—c. 1556)
[back]
ARCADE
[next]
ARCADIA

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.