Guillaume Steynsel

fl. 1479-1492

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Biography

Biographie rédigée en préparation – Written-out biography in progress

Fiala David

Information

  • Roles

    Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
    Member of a church (musician)
    Member of a court chapel (musician)
    Singer

  • Gender

    Male

Events

(YYYY-MM-DD)

5 in database

Geographical origins

Utrecht (Netherlands)

Musical position

Member of a court chapel (musician)
1479/1481
Brugge (Belgium)


Patron: Marie de Bourgogne

Institution: Chapelle ducale de Bourgogne, Burgundy (France)

Bibliography: Fiala 2002

Musical position

Member of a church (musician)
1484-08/1485-08-01
Firenze (Italy)


Patron: Lorenzo de' Medici, il Magnifico

Institution: Battistero San Giovanni di Firenze, Firenze (Italy)

Religious position

Member of a church (higher ecclesiastic, canon)
1486-03-08
Pavia (Italy)


Institution: San Giovanni Domnarum di Pavia, Pavia (Italy)

Musical position

Member of a court chapel (musician)
1488-12/1489
Milano (Italy)


Patron: Ludovico Maria Sforza detto il Moro

Institution: Cappella ducale di Milano, Milano (Italy)

Bibliography: Merkley & Merkley 1999

Musical position

Singer
1489/1492
Firenze (Italy)


Institution: Corte Ducale di Toscana, Firenze (Italy)

Variant names

Guglielmo d’Arnoldo de Steynsel ; Steinsel ; Willem

Associated people

François Millet (Francesco Migliotti / di Martin) (Travel companion)

Gaspar van Weerbeke (Exchange of letters)

Lorenzo de' Medici, il Magnifico (Exchange of letters)

Philippe Du Passage (Travel companion)

Bibliography

[D'Accone 1961]

D’Accone, Frank Anthony, F. A., 1961, The Singers of San Giovanni in Florence during the 15th Century, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 14, p. 307‑358 http://www.jstor.org/stable/830196.

[Fiala 2002]

Fiala, D., 2002, Le mécénat musical des ducs de Bourgogne et des princes de la maison de Habsbourgs : 1467-1506 : étude documentaire et prosopographique, Thèse de doctorat soutenue à Tours, 2002 http://www.sudoc.fr/069901945.

[Fiala PCR]

Fiala, D., 2008, Contribution directe à la Prosopographie des chantres de la Renaissance / Direct contribution to the Prosopography of Renaissance Singers.

[Gallagher 2019]

Gallagher, S., 2019, Belle promesse e facti nulla: A Letter to Weerbeke and the Treatment of Singers in Florence and Milan, Gaspar van Weerbeke, p. 59‑71 https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/M.EM-EB.4.2019025 (consulté le 30 avril 2024).

[Merkley & Merkley 1999]

Merkley, P. A. et Merkley, L. L. M., 1999, Music and patronage in the Sforza Court, Turnhout http://www.sudoc.fr/055225020 (consulté le 22 janvier 2013).

Contributors

David Fiala - Project manager ; Biography author


Data collectors

collab_surname Guillaume Avocat

David Fiala

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