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Jean mouton
By Manuel Errea and Carlos Carrillo
Jean Mouton
• 1459- 1522
• Was a French composer of the Renaissance.
• He was famous for his motets, which are among the finest ones of the era.
• He was the teacher of Adrian Willaert, one of the founders of the Venetian school.
About his life
• He became a priest.
• In 1500 was in charge of a children's choir in the cathedral of Amiens.
• In 1501 he was in Grenoble, teaching choirboys, but left the next year
• In 1509 again was granted a position in Grenoble he could hold in absentia.
• Mouton was the main composer of the French court.
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• For the rest of his life he worked for the french court.
• One way or another, often wrote music for:
• weddings• coronations • papal elections • births and deaths
• His first job was probably, singer and teacher of the collegiate Nesle (southeast of Amiens),
• in 1477, and in 1483 became maître de chapelle there.
• His music was reprinted and continued to attract other composers even in the 16th century.
• Noe, noe psallite noe was later used as a base for other’s compositons.
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