Willem Braxatoris

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Willem Braxatoris (mid-15th century) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the early Renaissance .

Person and compositions

Braxatoris' life data (date of birth and death, place of birth and death) could not be determined until today. His name appears on a document with the three-part chanson "So lanc so meer in minem sin". The piece has also come down to us on another document, but here with a text translated into German and also ascribed to the composer Johannes Pullois . According to the musicologist Reinhard Strohm (1985), the composer could be Willem de Brouwer (Scotelaer) , who worked as a "sancmeester" in the city of Bergen-op-Zoom and was the predecessor of Jacob Obrecht there; he died there before 1480.

meaning

Willem Braxatoris is assigned to the second generation of Franco-Flemish music because of his lifetime and the musical style of his well-known piece.

literature

  • Reinhard Strohm: Music in Late Medieval Bruges , Oxford 1985
  • R. Wegman: Music and Musicians at the Guild of Our Lady in Bergen op Zoom, c. 1470-1510 , in: Early Music History No. 9, 1990, pages 175-249
  • Jan Willem Bonda: De meerstemmige Nederlandse liederen van de vijftiende en zestiende eeuw (The Polyphonic Songs in Dutch of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, with a Summary in English), Hilversum 1996
  • David Fallows: A Catalog of Polyphonic Songs, 1415-1480 , Oxford 1999

swell

  1. ↑ The Music in Past and Present (MGG), Person Part Volume 3, Bärenreiter Verlag Kassel and Basel 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1112-8
personal data
SURNAME Braxatoris, Willem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Flemish composer of the early Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century