Léonin
Léonin (* around 1150; † around 1201, also Leoninus ) was a master's degree at the monastery church and cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris and one of the most important representatives of the Notre Dame school .
Léonin paved the way for polyphony . His two-part music is based on a stretched liturgical melody, plus free-composed upper voices in a moving rhythm . His work Magnus liber organi (Great Book of Organa ) in particular is a milestone in early polyphonic music. It mainly contains (two-part) organ sales and quart organa for the mass and the office . Léonin was also honored by contemporaries as "Optimus Organista".
Léonin was, together with his successor Pérotin, the most important composer of the Notre Dame School. Just as in architecture, Léonin tried to make his musical works more complex. The music now sounded more flexible and differentiated thanks to the further development of the parallel organum into the rambling organum .
Web links
- Works by and about Léonin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Léonin in the German Digital Library
- Sheet music and audio files by Léonin in the International Music Score Library Project
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| SURNAME | Léonin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leoninus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer at the time of the Notre Dame School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1150 |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1201 |