Bernardus Ycart

fl. 1476/1480

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Biography

Court chapel of the king of Naples, 1480
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 Bernar Hicart") appears as 11th of the whole list and 3rd, just before Tinctoris, of the second section of the list, entitled "Seguitano li canturi" (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]").
A papal provision of 27.10.1478 mentionned him as clerc of the diocese of Tortosa and granted granted him an abbacy ‘in commendam’ at the monastery of S Maria del Pendino in Basilicata.

Fiala David
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Information

  • Roles

    Composer
    Member of a court chapel (musician)
    Music theorist

  • Gender

    Male

Events

(YYYY-MM-DD)
Geographical origins

Tortosa (Spain)

Musical position

Member of a court chapel (musician)
1476/1480
Napoli (Italy)


Patron: Ferdinand I of Naples

Institution: Cappella reale di Napoli, Napoli (Italy)

Variant names

Hicart

Associated people

No associated person.

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.

[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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