Antoine Bruhier: Life and Works of a Renaissance Papal Composer - Richard Wexler
Life and Works of a Renaissance Papal Composer
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Antoine Bruhier (c. 1470-after 1521) was a professional singer and composer, with secular works published by Petrucci and probably, by 1513, at least two masses to his credit. He had worked at the Cathedral of Langres and the courts of Ferrara and Urbino, if not elsewhere, when he received an appointment to the papal music establishment. In March of 1513, Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici, son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, had been elected pope and took the name Leo X. Leo, who himself composed and fervently loved...

