Antoine Brumel

fl. 1483-1512

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Displaying 9 events/geographical origins

Biography

Possible origin in Picardy and birth c. 1460-1465
Two separate archival documents designate him as a cleric of the diocese of Laon. Though this only means that he had received the minor orders in that diocese, his protracted links with the cathedral of Laon reinforce the possibility that he was born and raised in that region. The name of a village called Brumetz about 75 km south of Laon could indicate the origins of his family (rather than the villages nearer to Chartres called Brunelles or Brunel mentionned by Hudson 1973, p. 528). Since the first known fact of his biography signals him as an adult singer not yet ordained a priest in 1483, he must have been born in the years before 1465.
Cathedral Notre-Dame of Chartres, 1483
On 9 August 1483, the chapter of the cathedral Notre-Dame of Chartres appointed "a certain cleric named Anthonius de Brumel" as horarius et matutinarius (French "heurier et matutinier", i.e. singer for the daily cerimonies) of the church, granting him the higher stipend in consideration of his knowledge ("Capitulum retinuit in horarium et matitunarium quemdam nomine Anthonium de Brumel, clericum, ad majora stipendia ecclesiae, praehabita tamen relatione scientiae ipsius", Pirro 1929, p. 349 d'après F-Chartres-BM, ms. 1009, f. 98 — this manuscript was amongst the manuscripts partially destroyed by fire in 1944 but remnants of it are still legible). The capitular registers do not mention him again.
Cathedral Saint-Pierre of Geneva, 1486-1492

Cathedral Notre-Dame of Paris, 1498-1501

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Information

  • Roles

    Choirmaster
    Cleric
    Composer
    Instrumentalist
    Master of choirboys
    Singer

  • Gender

    Male

Events

(YYYY-MM-DD)

8 in database

Geographical origins

Laon (France)

Musical position

Singer
1483-09-06
Chartres (France)


Institution: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, Chartres (France)

Musical position

Master of choirboys
1486-10-04/1492
Genève (Switzerland)


Institution: Saint-Pierre de Genève (av. 1535), Genève (Switzerland)

Travel

Master of choirboys
circa 1491-04-11
Nürnberg (Germany)


Comments: Expectative by Maximilian, king of the romans

Religious position

Cleric
1497
Laon (France)


Institution: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon, Laon (France)

Musical position

Master of choirboys
1498/1500
Paris (France)


Institution: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Paris (France)

Musical position

Singer
1501/1502
Chambéry (France)


Institution: Cour ducale de Savoie, Chambéry (France)

Musical position

Choirmaster
1506-08/1510
Ferrara (Italy)


Patron: Alfonso I d'Este

Institution: Cappella ducale di Ferrara, Ferrara (Italy)

Religious position

Cleric
1512
Mantova (Italy)

Associated works

2 in database

Variant names

Broemel ; Brommel ; Brumet ; Brummel ; Brunel ; Brunello ; Brunil

Associated people

No associated person.

Bibliography

[Goldine 1968]

Goldine, N., 1968, Les heuriers-matiniers de la cathédrale de Chartres jusqu’au XVIe siècle. Organisation liturgique et musicale, Revue de Musicologie, 54, p. 161‑175 https://www.jstor.org/stable/926989 (consulté le 30 janvier 2025).

[PCR]

Fiala, D., 2009, Prosopographie des Chantres de la Renaissance (PCR) : dictionnaire biographique en ligne des chanteurs professionnels des XVe et XVIe siècles, Ricercar Data Lab https://ricercardatalab.cesr.univ-tours.fr/en/projects/5/.

[Pidoux 1964]

Pidoux, P., 1964, Antoine Brumel à Genève (1486-1492), Revue de Musicologie, 50, p. 110‑112 https://www.jstor.org/stable/927532 (consulté le 31 janvier 2025).

[Pirro 1929b]

Pirro, A., 1928, Dokumente über Antoine Brumel, Louis van Pullaer und Crispin van Stappen, Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft, 11, p. 349‑353.

[Santifaller 1949]

Santifaller, L., 1949, Die Preces primariae Maximilians I. Auf Grund der maximilianischen Registerbücher des Wiener Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchives, Festschrift Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, 1, p. 578‑661.

[Sherr 1994a]

Sherr, R., 1994, A Biographical Miscellany: Josquin, Tinctoris, Obrecht, Brumel, dans U. Kirkendale et S. Gmeinwieser (éd.), Musicologia humana: studies in honor of Warren and Ursula Kirkendale, Firenze, p. 65‑74.

[Van den Borren 1965]

Van den Borren, C., Tinel, P. et Bernier, R., 1965, Concours annuel de 1965. Histoire et critique. 4e Question. Rapports sur un Mémoire intitulé : Antoine Brumel (vers 1464-vers 1520), Etude bibliographique, Bulletins de l’Académie Royale de Belgique, 47, p. 206‑216 https://www.persee.fr/doc/barb_0378-0716_1965_num_47_1_63607 (consulté le 31 janvier 2025).

[Wegman 2008]

Wegman, R. C., 2008, Ockeghem, Brumel, Josquin: New Documents in Troyes, Early Music, 36, p. 203‑215, 217 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27655169.

[Wright 1989]

Wright, C., 1989, Music and Ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550, Cambridge, New York, Melbourne http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36955363q/PUBLIC (consulté le 4 juin 2015).

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