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Cornelius Canis
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Renaissance Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and choir director
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Flanders
- Active from
- 1505
- Active to
- 1561-02-15
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 71
- Total plays
- 202
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franco-flemish16th century
Cornelius Canis (also de Hondt, d'Hondt) (between 1500 and 1510 – 15 February 1561) was a Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and choir director of the Renaissance, active for much of his life in the Grande Chapelle, the imperial Habsburg music establishment during the reign of Emperor Charles V. He brought the compositional style of the mid-16th century Franco-Flemish school, with its elaborate imitative polyphony, together with the lightness and clarity of the Parisian chanson <a href="https://w
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Cornelius
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Habsburg Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Ghent
- Place of death
- Prague
- Occupation
- chapelmaster
- Position held
- chapelmaster
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Student of
- Nicolas Gombert
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- date of death
- 1561-02-16
- date of birth
- 1506-00-00
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
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