Nycasius de Clibano (also Nicasius, Casijn) (

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1457 – 1497; d. 9-14 Oct. 1497) was a

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singer and composer of the

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, probably active only in his homeland, the southern part of the

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Life and work

He was the father of the slightly better-known composer

Jheronimus de Clibano Jheronimus de Clibano (Jherome Du Four) (c. 1459 – between March 26 and May 16, 1503) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. He was a member of the Habsburg ''Grande chapelle'', the distinguished choir of Philip I of Castil ...

, as well as Jan de Clibano, who is known only to have been a singer, not a composer. Nycasius probably was born in the south

, and he seems to have spent his entire career in

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. He first appears in the records there in 1457, when he was brought in as a singer at the

Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady The Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady (Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap) was a religious confraternity founded in 1318 in 's-Hertogenbosch to promote the veneration of the Mother of God. The brotherhood was organized around a carved wood ...

(Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap). The next year he married, and in 1466 or 1467 he became a member of the Brotherhood, rising in the ecclesiastical ranks through the 1470s. Among his duties was recruiting new singers from other cities; a trip to

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and

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is documented during which he sought to find new members for the choir. In 1493 or 1494 he became the choirmaster. The accounts of the Brotherhood record his death between 9 and 14 October 1497, and in 1498

Matthaeus Pipelare Matthaeus Pipelare ( – ) was a Netherlandish composer, choir director, and possibly wind instrument player of the Renaissance. He was from Louvain, and spent part of his early life in Antwerp. Unlike many of his contemporaries, many of whom t ...

took over his duties as choirmaster. Only one work is known to be by Nycasius with reasonable certainty, a ''Credo Vilayge'', which exists in multiple sources, although even this attribution has been questioned.Meconi, p. 72

Works

*''Credo Vilayge'' (survives in multiple sources) *''Missa Et super nivem dealbabor'' (either by Nycasius or his son Jheronimus; listed as by "De clibano" in the

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source)

References

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and Eric Jas, "Nycasius de Clibano." Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed July 8, 2007)
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*Honey Meconi, ''Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court''. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 2003.

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