Manuel Chrysaphes
Manuel Chrysaphes Lampadarios (around 1440, † 1463 ) was a Byzantine composer and music theorist.
Chrysaphes was a singer at the imperial court of Byzantium and cantor at Hagia Sophia . After the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman ruler Sultan Mehmed II , he lived in Serbia and on Crete.
In 1458 he published a work on the theory and practice of contemporary Greek singing (English: The treatise of Manuel Chrysaphes, the Lampadarios: on the theory of the art of chanting and on certain erroneous views that some hold about it. ) And is an earlier one Representative of the emerging polyphonic compositional style.
Web links
- Literature by and about Manuel Chrysaphes in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Chrysaphes, Manuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chrysaphes Lampadarios, Manuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Byzantine composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1440 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1463 |