Pieter Bordon

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Pieter Bordon (* around 1450 in Ghent ; † after 1484) was a Flemish singer, composer and cleric.

Pieter Bordon was the son of the Ghent citizen Valeriaen Bordon and his wife Margriete van Wijniersch. The father - as a cotiadiane singer ( i.e. as an adult choir singer) to Saint Jacob in Ghent from June 24, 1440 to June 24, 1452 - died before the son reached the age of majority, so that the city's hereditary magistrate intervened in the regulation of inheritance . In a document dated September 11, 1465, Pieter Bordon is called 'Pieterkin Bordon', which indicates that he was a minor.

Pieter Bordon sang as a cotiadiane singer at various churches in Ghent until 1478. To Saint Jacob from June 24, 1466 to June 24, 1469 and from October 1, 1470 to June 24, 1472, to Saint Michael from December 25, 1472 to March 25, 1475 and from June 24, 1478 to March 23, 1472 September 1478.

At the end of 1472, Pieter must have already held one of the lower ecclesiastical ranks, because on December 2nd of this year his mother wrote him an annuity of 480 groschen, "because Pieter Bordon Valeriaenszone intends to enter the priesthood shortly ..." . In fact, he has appeared in the accounts since 1473 as "dominus Petrus Bordoen" and was referred to as "her Pieter Bordon presbytre" on May 10, 1475, when he sold a house in Ghent to a Janne Aenbec for 1440 groschen.

In 1478/79 he went to Italy and sang from August 1479 to February 1480 at the Treviso Cathedral .

In the following years, the trail of Pieter Bordon is lost, but it is very likely that he studied at an Italian university. Financial means for this were available thanks to the annuity of 480 groschen.

In August and September 1484 he stayed in Siena and received money from the cathedral there for “the composition of motets , creeds and other figural music ”. None of the compositions has survived under Bordon's name, perhaps some have been preserved in the anonymous works of the choir book SienBC K.1.2.

Today only two compositions are known under Bordon's name. A four-part L'Homme-armé movement ascribed to a Borton in RomeCas 2856 (now usually assigned to Robert Morton ) and the three-part, a 'Pe. Bourdon 'arrangement, De tous biens plains, in the Odhecaton A.