Antoine Brumel
Antoine Brumel (also Brummel, Brommel, Brunello ) (* 1460 in Brunelles to Nogent- le- Rotrou ();? † after 1515 ) was a French composer, singer and clerics.
Life
Background and education Brumels are in the dark. On August 9, 1483 he was Offiziumsänger at Notre -Dame in Chartres. Specifically because of his education gave him the chapter a higher salary than usual.
From Chartres, he moved probably to Geneva. There he was appointed to St. Peter on October 4, 1486 the choir master. He was responsible for the choirboys. From February 1489 he received from the chapter again and again leave to visit the nearby Chambery the court of the regent of Savoy, Bianca de Montferrat. In June 1490 he was praised as a major musician, recorded in the court orchestra. But in August of the same year he was back in Geneva, where relations with the chapter deteriorated. End of April 1492 criticized the chapter discipline difficulties of the choristers; Brumel its part, the recording incompetent choirboys by the chapter. This eventually led to Brumel in August 1492 Geneva left for an unknown destination.
The next five years are documentary barely illuminated. But it is clear that he priest and canon of the cathedral of Laon was at that time. A stay there in 1497 is accounted for.
End of 1497 the chapter of Notre -Dame at Paris Brumel offered the post of " magister puerorum " on, on which he had already applied earlier. On January 5, 1498 he was introduced to the office. Brumel was responsible for entertainment, training and education of 10 choristers and lived with them in the Maîtrise (now 8, Rue Massillon ). He received an annual salary of about 40 livres tournois, moreover, amounts for the singing of the approximately 600 different votive and memory services. For these foundations, he has composed the Versikulum " Ave Maria ". Initially very pleased with Brumel, the canons granted to him on February 26, 1498 an additional 16 écus for a housemaid and a secretary. On April 30, 1498 was Brumel the funeral service for Charles VIII in the top row of canons or one of the socii chori, who sang the Requiem.
In September 1500 Brumel was granted a two-week vacation, so that he could visit his birthplace.
After his return, tensions between Brumel and the recessed section. Several times he had to demand outstanding amounts of money. And despite two and a half years of service had still given him no prebend at the cathedral or at least the diocese.
Finally, it came as a result of disputes relating to the recording of a choir boy to break. On November 16, 1500 Brumel gave up his post. Although the canons sent a delegation to him which should persuade him to withdraw his decision, but he stuck with it.
He turned to Chambery, where he was Duke Filiberto (1497-1504) appointed chapel choir on June 1, 1501. The letter of appointment contains a passage which seems to indicate a immediately preceding employment in the court orchestra of the French king. But this time it did not last long in office Brumel: Already on July 1, 1502, he retired from the Ducal Chapel.
1503 Petrucci published a tape measure Brumel. This was an honor that was bestowed only the most famous composers of the time.
The end of 1505 began to Duke Alfonso I d' Este of Ferrara negotiations with Brumel on its position as Kapellmeister in succession of the late summer 1505 Jacob Obrecht. The Duke helped himself doing the mediation of his brother, the Duke of Sora Sigismondo Cantelmo († 1519), seems to have been standing at the Brumel in services. On December 13, 1505 Brumel from " Leone " (Lyon? ) Was appointed to his new post. The contract for life included the promise of a Beneficiums worth 100 ducats a year, an annual salary of 100 ducats, the right of use for a home in Ferrara and 50 ducats for the arrival.
Brumel belonged to the chapel probably until its dissolution in 1510. Like most of the dismissed musicians he went to Mantua, where he mentioned a document dated May 11, 1512 as suffering death.
1513 should Brumel attended the coronation of Leo X with some other famous composers, but there is no documentary evidence for this.