Pierre Passereau

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Pierre Passereau was a French tenor and composer of the Renaissance . His birth and death dates are unknown. It is mentioned for the first time in 1509 , and its traces are lost after 1547 .

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Pierre Passereau was the chapel singer of the duke and later French king François d'Angoulême from 1509 and from around 1525 to 1530 also singer at the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Cambrai . It is also certain that he was still alive in 1536. Passereau was one of the most popular chanson composers of his time.

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In addition to motets , his work consists of 26 chansons published by Pierre Attaignant , including the famous Il est bel et bon , which imitates the cry of the hens. According to contemporary reports, this chanson is said to have even been sung in the streets of Venice . She tells the story of a wife who makes fun of her good-natured and hardworking but silly and horned husband. Whether shoddy, narrative, descriptive or melancholy, Passereau's works met with a certain degree of success: Published several times, they were parodied by several of his contemporaries, including Pierre Certon (1570) and also adapted for playing with instruments. Another proof of his popularity can be found in Rabelais' list of musicians in his Le Quart Livre (Eng .: The Fourth Book) of 1552: There he describes Passereau as a "happy musician".

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SURNAME Passereau, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French tenor and composer of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1547