Arnoul Gréban (

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before 1420 –

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ca. 1485), a French

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at the Cathedrale

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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

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; he lived in France and Italy. He was Master of Arts, bachelor of

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in 1458; from 1451 to 1456, he was organist and master of grammar and at the

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of Notre-Dame-de-Paris. He then served

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, until the death of the latter in 1472. He then left to Italy, was chaplain of San Lorenzo in

in 1476 and responsible for music at the

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until 1485.

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

* * http://www.arlima.net/ad/arnoul_greban.html (Schriftenverzeichnis und Literatur)

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