A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Brumel, Antoine

BRUMEL, Antoine, a Flemish musician, one of the most distinguished of Ockenheim's pupils. He flourished in the epoch (1480–1520) which may be distinguished as the period of Josquin des Prés. Nothing is known of his personal history, but his compositions have been handed down to us in sufficient number to prove the justice of his great reputation. There is a perfect copy of five of his masses, printed in one volume by Petrucci of Venice in 1503, preserved in the royal library at Berlin. There is also a collection of masses of various authors by the same printer, and containing one of Brumel's, in the British Museum. There are besides many masses and motets in other editions of Petrucci's, and MSS. exist in the royal library at Munich as well as in the pontifical chapel.

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