Clement Liebert (
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1433–1454) was a
Franco-Flemish singer and composer of the early
Renaissance, active in Rome and at the
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court.
His life is only documented briefly for two periods. Like many composers who originated in the modern-day
Low Countries, he spent time in
Italy, and sang in the papal chapel in 1433. His presence is also recorded in the Burgundian court chapel, where he was employed as a singer from 1441 to 1454.
[Fallows, Grove online]
Only one piece of music is securely attributed to him, a song entitled ''Comment porray''.
The manuscript containing it, formerly in the Strasbourg Bibliothèque Municipale, was destroyed on 24 August 1870, during the
Siege of Strasbourg in the
Franco-Prussian War.
It is not known if Liebert was related to
Reginaldus Libert Reginaldus Libert (Reginald; also Liebert) (fl. c. 1425–1435) was a French composer of the early Renaissance. He was a minor member of the Burgundian School, a contemporary of Guillaume Dufay, and one of the first to use fauxbourdon in a mass set ...
(Liebert), another Burgundian composer who was one of the first to use ''
fauxbourdon'' in a setting of the
Ordinary of the Mass. It is also possible that Clement Liebert is the same as a J. de Climen, a composer of around 1430, to whom a two-voice canon was attributed in a manuscript formerly from a Strasbourg library, now destroyed.
[Tom R. Ward, Grove online]
References
*David Fallows: "Clement Liebert", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed May 16, 2007)
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, et al. "Sources, MS, §VII." Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed February 19, 2009
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*Tom R. Ward: "J. de Climen", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed May 16, 2007)
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Gustave Reese, ''Music in the Renaissance''. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954.
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15th-century births
15th-century deaths
Burgundian school composers
Flemish composers
Renaissance composers