Surname
Vromont (de)
Given Name
Simon
Variant Name
Lille (de)
Insula (de)
Active period
1450 - 1460
Biography
NG2: (3) Simon [Symon] de Insula
(fl c1450-60). French or ?English composer of a four-voice mass cycle (without Kyrie) in I-TRmp 88, ff.304v-311 (nos.428-31). Based on the isomelically treated antiphon O admirabile [beati Gregorii] (see PalMus, xii, 1922/R, p.219), the cycle has matching head-motifs, extensive duo sections and the Wechselklänge that Besseler described as characteristic of English music. So there is some dispute as to whether " Insula" in this case means Lille, as one would expect, or England (see MGG1, Gülke). However, if the name can be interpreted that freely it is possible that Simon de Insula is to be identified with (1) Simon le Breton who, as a chaplain to the Burgundian court, spent much of his working life in Lille; but the musical style of the mass cycle contradicts such an identification.
• Maître de chant à St Pierre de Lille
Warichez Etat 1457:
p. 164. Sanctus Leodegarius (St Léger près de Helchin, dioc. Tournai)
possessor Johannes Juclantoris… Summa tocius valoris ipsius ecclesie in residencia 13 lib. 17s 11d gross. Sed tamen valuit annis nuper effluxi in absentia, eidem Juclantori, cotere domino Symone de Lille eamdem ecclesiam regente ac summam predictam eidem Joclantori singulis annis solvente, videlicet 9 lib. gross.
(fl c1450-60). French or ?English composer of a four-voice mass cycle (without Kyrie) in I-TRmp 88, ff.304v-311 (nos.428-31). Based on the isomelically treated antiphon O admirabile [beati Gregorii] (see PalMus, xii, 1922/R, p.219), the cycle has matching head-motifs, extensive duo sections and the Wechselklänge that Besseler described as characteristic of English music. So there is some dispute as to whether " Insula" in this case means Lille, as one would expect, or England (see MGG1, Gülke). However, if the name can be interpreted that freely it is possible that Simon de Insula is to be identified with (1) Simon le Breton who, as a chaplain to the Burgundian court, spent much of his working life in Lille; but the musical style of the mass cycle contradicts such an identification.
• Maître de chant à St Pierre de Lille
Warichez Etat 1457:
p. 164. Sanctus Leodegarius (St Léger près de Helchin, dioc. Tournai)
possessor Johannes Juclantoris… Summa tocius valoris ipsius ecclesie in residencia 13 lib. 17s 11d gross. Sed tamen valuit annis nuper effluxi in absentia, eidem Juclantori, cotere domino Symone de Lille eamdem ecclesiam regente ac summam predictam eidem Joclantori singulis annis solvente, videlicet 9 lib. gross.