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Léonin
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Léonin (also Leoninus, Leonius, Leo; ) was the first known significant composer of polyphonic organum. He was probably French, probably lived and worked in Paris at the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was the earliest member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony and the ars antiqua style who is known by name, thanks to the writer known as Anonymous IV. Though no further identification is certain, the name "Leoninus" and its Latin diminutive Leo have the French equivalents Léonin/Léo.
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Léonin was a French composer and male human who lived from 1135 to 1201. He was associated with the Notre Dame school movement and the ars antiqua genre. His primary language was Latin, and he is recognized for his work in French music.
His notable work includes the *Magnus Liber*. While some records list an author named Mia Leonin with five works, including *Unraveling the bed* and *Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child*, these appear to be distinct from the medieval composer. Léonin’s musical legacy is often tagged with terms such as medieval, early music, and 12th century.
Synthesized by Vinony from 33 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Crossref, VIAF, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Unraveling the bed
- Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child
- Chance Born
- Braid
- Havana and other missing fathers
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1150
- Active to
- 1201
Discography
- Music of the Middle Ages, vol. II1958
- École Notre-Dame: Messe du Jour de Noël1985
- Organum Duplum / Organum Quadruplum / Messe de Nostre Dame / 5 Sacred Songs1996
- Sacred Music from 12th-century Paris1997
- The School of Notre Dame1997
- Sacred Music from 12th-century Paris – 22001
- Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral2005
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18,564
- Total plays
- 138,569
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Léonin (also Leoninus, Leonius, Leo) (fl. 1150s — d. ? 1201) is the first known significant composer of polyphonic organum. He was probably French, and he probably lived and worked in Paris at the Notre Dame Cathedral, and was the earliest member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony who is known by name. The name Léonin is derived from "Leoninus," which is the Latin diminutive of the name Leo, thus it is likely that Léonin's given French name was Léo. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/L%C3%A9o
via Last.fm · Léonin
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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via Crossref · CC0
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- 1135–1201
- Nationality
- FR
- Role / Field
- Kompozytorzy francuscy, Muzyka francuska
- Language
- fre
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 6 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
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Encyclopedic overview
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Léonin (also Leoninus, Leonius, Leo; ) was the first known significant composer of polyphonic organum. He was probably French, probably lived and worked in Paris at the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was the earliest member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony and the ars antiqua style who is known by name, thanks to the writer known as Anonymous IV. Though no further identification is certain, the name "Leoninus" and its Latin diminutive Leo have the French equivalents Léonin/Léo.
==Overview== All our knowledge about him starts from the writing of a 13c. student at the cathedral known as Anonymous IV, an Englishman who left a treatise on theory and who mentions Léonin as the composer of the Magnus Liber, the "great book" of organum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Léonin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.