Arnoul Gréban (
Le Mans
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before 1420 –
Florence
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ca. 1485), a French
organist
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at the Cathedrale
Notre Dame de Paris
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, authored a ''Mystère de la Passion'' and with his brother Simon Gréban the ''Mystère des Actes des Apôtres''.
Gréban may have come from the
diocese
In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...
of
Cambrai
Cambrai (, ; pcd, Kimbré; nl, Kamerijk), formerly Cambray and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department and in the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, regio ...
; he lived in France and Italy. He was master of arts, bachelor of
theology
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in 1458; from 1451 to 1456, he was organist and master of grammar and at the
choir
A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which ...
of Notre-Dame-de-Paris. He then served
Charles, Count of Maine
Charles du Maine (1414–1472) was a French prince of blood and an advisor to Charles VII of France, his brother-in-law, during the Hundred Years' War. He was the third son of Louis II, Duke of Anjou and King of Naples, and Yolande of Aragon.
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, until the death of the latter in 1472. He then left to Italy, was chaplain of San Lorenzo in
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...
in 1476 and responsible for music at the
House of Medici
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until 1485.
See also
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Medieval French literature
Medieval French literature is, for the purpose of this article, Medieval literature written in Oïl languages (particularly Old French and early Middle French) during the period from the eleventh century to the end of the fifteenth century.
The ...
Bibliography
* Pierre Champion, "Arnoul Gréban, l'auteur du Mystère de la Passion", in ''Histoire poétique du XVe'', Paris, 1923
* Henri Stein, "Arnoul Gréan, poète et musicien", in ''Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes'', t. 79, 1918,
* Darwin Smith (born 1951), ''Arnoul Gréban. Clerc, chanteur et pédagogue entre la France et l'Italie au XVe siècle'', Thèse, Paris 1, 2010.
External links
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* http://www.arlima.net/ad/arnoul_greban.html (Schriftenverzeichnis und Literatur)
See also
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Mystery play
Mystery plays and miracle plays (they are distinguished as two different forms although the terms are often used interchangeably) are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. Medieval mystery plays focused on the represen ...
15th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French classical organists
French male organists
Cathedral organists
Year of birth uncertain
1480s deaths
Male classical organists
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