Arnold de Lantins
Arnold de Lantins (
Very little is known about his life, except for a few years in the 1420s to around 1430. It is presumed that he was from
It is not known for certain if Arnold de Lantins was a relative of Hugo de Lantins, a composer active at the same time, but since their works often appear together in collections and they seem to have been in the same geographical regions, it is not unlikely. However, a sharp stylistic difference between the works of the two composers shows they can not be the same person. Earlier theories that there was a third "de Lantins," a certain Ray de Lantins, known from a single inscription in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Mus. 3224, were shown to be wrong in 2012 by Margaret Bent and Robert Klugseder, upon the discovery of a second, fuller inscription to "Raynaldus de lantins" of a Credo ascribed to Arnold de Lantins in two other sources.[1] This ascription makes it extremely likely that Ray should be read as a variant of Arnold.
Lantin's music was held in high regard, and appears alongside that of Dufay,
He also wrote secular music, including ballades and rondeaux, all of which are in French, as well as a few shorter sacred pieces. Some of them refer to specific events or specific people, but none of either have been conclusively identified.
Recordings
- Arnold de Lantins, Missa Verbum Incarnatum, Ricercar CD RIC 207, by the Capilla Flamenca, Psallentes and Clari Cantuli. Also contains the motet O pulcherrina mulierum, as well as music by Johannes Brassart and Johannes Cesaris.
- Listen to a free recording of a song from Umeå Akademiska Kör.
References and further reading
- ^ David Fallows, review of Margaret Bent and Robert Klugseder, Ein Liber cantus aus dem Veneto (um 1440) (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2012), in Plainsong and Medieval Music 23.1 (2014) (subscription required)
- Article "Arnold de Lantins", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
- ISBN 0-393-09530-4
- Schoop, Hans; Allsen, J. Michael. L. Macy (ed.). Arnold de Lantins. Grove Music Online. Retrieved 29 October 2010. (subscription required)
- Planchart, Alejandro. L. Macy (ed.). Guillaume Du Fay. Grove Music Online. Retrieved 29 October 2010. (subscription required)
- Lidia Kućmierz, "Construction of music in non-mass works of Arnold de Lantins", Master Thesis, Jagiellonian University of Cracow, Faculty of History, Cracow 1995
External links
- Free access to high-resolution images of manuscripts containing works by this composer from Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
- Free scores by Arnold de Lantins in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
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