Jean Courtois (composer)

Jean Courtois (fl. 1530–1545) was a composer of the Franco-Flemish School of the generation after Josquin des Prez. He was maitre de chapelle to the Archbishop of Cambrai in present-day France. His motet Venite populi terrae was written to celebrate Emperor Charles V and was performed in the Cathedral; the Emperor would have heard it in 1539 on his march to suppress the Revolt of Ghent.[1][2] He wrote around 20 chansons, 15 motets, and 2 masses.[3] Courtois’ work exhibits the varied imitative procedures and shifting textural treatment which typify the Franco-Netherlandish motet style. The chansons, for 4 voices, are in the "Parisian" style of the day; the works for 5 or 6 voices are in the more contrapuntal "Netherlandish" style.

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References
  1. Johnson, Keith. "Jean Courtois Biography". artistdirect.com. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  2. Hamilton, Mary Catherine (1900). "Courtois, Jean". wikisource.org. In A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by George Grove. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  3. The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, edited by Don Michael Randel (Belknap Press, 1996), p. 182.
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