Surname
Morel
Given Name
Jean
Role
Basse contre
Bassus
Employee of a court chapel (musician)
Known voice range
Musician
Singer
Active period
1561 - 1572
Institution
Capilla real de España
Biography
VDS
Morel (Mre Jean), basse-contre de la chapelle de Philippe II. « Aux prébendes de Béthune et du viel chasteau » de Hesdin. » Peut-être est-ce le père de Nicolas Morel, maître de chant de la cathédrale de Rouen.
NG2 MOREL
Jenin Morel, a Netherlander, was a singer in Charles V’s chapel from 1518 to 1521. Jean Morel was listed as a ‘basse-contre’ in the chapel of Philip II of Spain in 1561, described as ‘newly arrived from Flanders’. His name reappears in the Spanish court records of 1566 and 1572. Nicholas (or Nicolas) Morel (b Rouen, ?c1550) was maître des enfants de choeur at Rouen Cathedral. In 1584 at the Puy de Musique at Evreux he received a silver lyre for his chanson Je porte en mon bouquet; two years later he was awarded a silver lute for his D'ou vient belle. Both these works are now lost. (FétisB; Vander StraetenMPB, i, vii, viii)
JANE A. BERNSTEIN
Morel (Mre Jean), basse-contre de la chapelle de Philippe II. « Aux prébendes de Béthune et du viel chasteau » de Hesdin. » Peut-être est-ce le père de Nicolas Morel, maître de chant de la cathédrale de Rouen.
NG2 MOREL
Jenin Morel, a Netherlander, was a singer in Charles V’s chapel from 1518 to 1521. Jean Morel was listed as a ‘basse-contre’ in the chapel of Philip II of Spain in 1561, described as ‘newly arrived from Flanders’. His name reappears in the Spanish court records of 1566 and 1572. Nicholas (or Nicolas) Morel (b Rouen, ?c1550) was maître des enfants de choeur at Rouen Cathedral. In 1584 at the Puy de Musique at Evreux he received a silver lyre for his chanson Je porte en mon bouquet; two years later he was awarded a silver lute for his D'ou vient belle. Both these works are now lost. (FétisB; Vander StraetenMPB, i, vii, viii)
JANE A. BERNSTEIN
Bibliography
NG2
Van der Straeten MPB