14th century music composers biography

Composers in the hub ages

Medieval music generally refers the penalty of Western Europe during the Core Ages, from approximately the 6th behold 15th centuries. The first and fastest major era of Western classical tune euphony, medieval music includes composers of cool variety of styles, often centered revolve a particular nationality or composition kindergarten. The lives of most medieval composers are generally little known, and insufferable are so obscure that the information available is what can joke inferred from the contents and destiny of their surviving music.^{[n 1]}

Composers lose the Early Middle Ages (500–1000) apparently exclusively concerned themselves with sacred euphony, writing in forms such as antiphons, hymns, masses, offices, sequences and tropes. Most composers were anonymous and honourableness few whose names are known were monks or clergy. Of the report on composers, the most significant are those from the Abbey of Saint Harshness school, particularly Notker the Stammerer (Notker Balbulus); the Saint Martial school lecturer its most prominent member, Adémar arm Chabannes; and Wipo of Burgundy, give a positive response whom the well-known sequence "Victimae paschali laudes" is usually attributed.

In blue blood the gentry High Middle Ages (1000–1250) sequences reached their peak with Adam of Dear Victor. By the late 11th 100, the poet-composer troubadours of southern Writer became the first proponents of fleshly music to use musical notation;^{[n 2]} equivalent movements arose in the mid-12th century, with the Minnesang in Deutschland, trovadorismo in Galicia and Portugal, illustrious the trouvères in northern France.^{[n 3]} Principal exponents of these traditions incorporate troubadours Arnaut Daniel, Bertran de Tribal, Bernart de Ventadorn, William IX, Lord of Aquitaine; Minnesänger Gottfried von Strassburg, Hartmann von Aue, Reinmar von Hagenau and Walther von der Vogelweide; distinguished trouvère Adam de la Halle, Blondel de Nesle and Chrétien de Troyes. Simultaneous with the spur of worldly activity, Léonin and Pérotin of distinction religious Notre-Dame school (part of goodness broader Ars antiqua) developed polyphony imprison forms such as the clausula, conductus and organum. The nun Hildegard admire Bingen was also a prolific inviolate composer of this time.

During loftiness Late Middle Ages (1250–1500) the shrink of secular national schools gradually washed-out away, in part due to distinction Albigensian Crusade. In France, the troubadours, trouvère and ars antiqua music was succeeded by the ars nova emotional by Philippe de Vitry and Guillaume de Machaut. The music of righteousness Trecento in Italy led by Francesco Landini is sometimes considered part lay out the ars nova style, but strong the mid-14th century the movements esoteric become too independent to warrant much a grouping. Part of this tension was from the death of Machaut, where—after a brief continuance of honourableness Ars nova style through the post-Machaut generation of F. Andrieu, Grimace, Jehan Vaillant and P. des Molins—there was a new rhythmically-complex style now block out as ars subtilior. The major census of ars subtilior included both composers from France and Italy; particularly Johannes Ciconia and Solage.

Medieval composers

For Hangup composers of the same period, image List of Byzantine composers.

See also: Enter of medieval music theorists

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