Crépin, Gilles (…-…). Musician; Singer

Chanteur de la cour de Savoie en 1461-64, à RomeSP en 1464, pv à Cambrai en 1465-68. Soprano à RomeSP de 1471 à 1481. En chemin de Picardie vers Rome en 1468-69, il apporte en Savoie de la part de Du Fay “aucunes messes faittes en l’art de musique nouvellement”. (Bouquet 1968, p.283; Haberl, p. 237. Fallows1982, notice p.245).

 Planchart : Gilles de Crépin): was a small vicar from 07 May 1465 to 08 July 1468 [LAN, 4G 7463, 6r; 4G 7467, 5v]. He had been a chaplain at the court of Savoy from September 1461 to December 1464 [Bouquet, “Cappella,” 283, the account of the small vicars referes to him as Gilles from Savoy, LAN, 4G 6789 (1468-69), 7v] and then a singer in San Pietro in Vaticano from perhaps March to August 1464 [Reynolds, Papal, 94, 200]. Upon leaving Cambrai he returned to Rome, passing through Savoy late in 1468 or early in 1469 [AST, TG 114, 261r-261v, dated 19 January 1469], and from 1471 to 1481 he was again a singer in San Pietro [Reynolds, Papal, 95]
p.45. Son “précepteur” Iohannes Autisbextia (!) adresse à un certain “Jean de Divanto” (Dinant?) une lettre en février [1473] au moment du scandale du recrutement des chanteurs napolitains par Galeazzo, lui conseillant de quitter la chapelle de Naples pour venir le rejoindre a Milan. Également mentionnés Jacotin Ruenport et Gilles Crépin.

Reynolds, p.94-95: Egidius Crispini, known in the north as Gilles Crepin, was probably employed by St. Peter's in 1461 (from March perhaps until October), during which time he sought a benefice in Utrecht. From there he moved to the Court of Savoy, where he served as a chaplain and singer from 1 September 1461 through December 1464. He then sang at Cambrai Cathedral as a petit vicaire in 1465 and perhaps also 1468. Crispini worked at St. Peter's at least from 1471 until 1481, but quite possibly he arrived as early as 1469. Sometime during 1468-69 he passed through Savoy on his way to Rome from Picardy, bringing with him certain newly composed Masses by "Messire Guillaume Du Fays."[41] Elsewhere I have raised the possibility that Crispini may have actually composed the Kyrie he attributed to the otherwise unknown "Egidius Cervelli," because the scribe made several alterations to notes in the Kyrie that are essentially compositional revisions and not corrections of errors. Egidius Crispini, Dns. [Gilles Crepin]: 6/1459; *3-10/1461; (3/1461); *3/1471-11/1475; 10/1476-4/1478; *3-5/1481. Sop. and scribe.

RepGermanicum, VIII, p.145, 992: Egidius de Crispin, cler. Cameracen. dioc. qui vig disp sup def nat (cs) assec est eccl s Petri de Gispen infra lim. et forte filam seu membrum par eccl de Wonne Traiect dioc de iur patron laic. (12 l tur p) vac p o Johannis Garbrandi, prom ad omnes ord tacito d def: de absol et nova prov 19 fev 61.

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Crispini, Egidius
fl. 1461-76. Soprano. SavoyDC; RomeSP
BouqS 283. HabR 237.