Johannes de Lotinis

fl. 1472/1480

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Biography

Member of Ferdinand of Aragon's court chapel recorded on a list of cloths given to the "21 singers of the chapel of the lord king" (though only listing 20 persons), drawn up in Naples in October 1480, his name ("A Joani Lothin") appears as the 5th of the list (Atlas 1979, p. 46-47 and 93; D'Agostino 2007, p. 160; list first and fully published and commented by Van der Straeten 1888, IV, p. 27-31: "Ad XXI canturi de la cappella del signor re infrascripti per loro vestire a ciascuno l'infrascripti panni a di[…] dicto [27.10.1480]").
He was obviously a singer of the Aragonese court chapel by serveral years, since Johannes Tinctoris dedicated to him his treatise Expositio manus, written c. 1472-1473 in Naples. It is this dedication that also mentions Lotin's origins in Dinant ("Johannis de Lontinis Dinantinus"). Tinctoris mentionned him again in a famous list of the best singers of his time which he inserted in his De inventione et usu musicae (original latin text and translation available online at Tinctoris EMT : "very many are singing most artfully and most sweetly: but among low tenorists Philippus de Passagio, born in Cyprus but educated in Brabant; among high ones Wassettus of Cambrai; among low contratenorists Joannes Okeghem, whom (as likewise an outstanding composer) we noticed above; among high ones Jacobus Teunis of Flanders; and among sopranos Joannes de Lotinis of Dinant justly (in my opinion) own the palm")

Fiala David

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  • Roles

    Member of a court chapel (musician)
    Superius

  • Gender

    Male

Events

(YYYY-MM-DD)
Geographical origins

Dinant (Belgium)

Musical position

Member of a court chapel (musician)
1472/1480
Napoli (Italy)


Patron: Ferdinand I of Naples

Institution: Cappella reale di Napoli, Napoli (Italy)

Variant names

Dinantinus ; Joani ; Lothin ; Lotin

Associated people

Johannes Tinctoris (dedication of a music treatise - by Tinctoris to Lotinis)

Bibliography

[Atlas 1985]

Atlas, A. W., 1985, Music at the Aragonese court of Naples, Cambridge ; New York http://www.sudoc.fr/045410518.

[D'agostino 2007]

D’Agostino, G., 2007, La musica, la cappella e il cerimoniale alla corte aragonese di Napoli, dans F. Piperno, G. B. Ravenni et A. Chegai (éd.), Cappelle musicali fra Corte, stato e Chiesa nell’italia del Rinascimento. Atti del Convegno internazionale. Camaiore, 21-23 ottobre 2005, Firenze, p. 153‑180 https://www.academia.edu/23647239/HISTORIAE_MUSICAE_CULTORES_CVIII_Diretta_da_A_cura_di.

[Tinctoris EMT]

Woodley, R. et Goursaud, C., s. d., Johannes Tinctoris | Early Music Theory https://earlymusictheory.org/Tinctoris/ (consulté le 21 novembre 2025).

[Van der Straeten 1888]

Straeten, E. vander, 1867, La musique aux Pays-Bas avant le XIX° siècle : documents inédits et annotés, Bruxelles http://www.sudoc.fr/052318443.

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David Fiala - Project manager ; Biography author

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