Surname
Herbare
Given Name
Richard
Place of birth
Bayeux
Active period
1432 - 1456
Biography
Reynolds 1995, p. 35-36 et 379: Sert à la chapelle de 1432 à 1456, avec un passage a SP en 1447.
p.36: Herbare was clearly only a temporary employee, brought in for two months until a suitable replacement could be found. A fixture in the papal choir for nearly twenty-five years (1432-56) and a native of Bayeux in Normandy, Herbare held the degree of master of arts and the lucrative curial posts of procurator audientiae litterarum and papal credentiarius . [Starr, "Music and Music Patronage," 188-90.] Although his two months at St. Peter's represent the only recorded instance of a papal singer being "lent" to the basilica, this practice may have been an extension of earlier arrangements, by which papal singers worked at St. Peter's not for months at a time but for individual liturgical feasts. After May the basilica replaced Herbare with another northerner, Hervé.
p.36: Herbare was clearly only a temporary employee, brought in for two months until a suitable replacement could be found. A fixture in the papal choir for nearly twenty-five years (1432-56) and a native of Bayeux in Normandy, Herbare held the degree of master of arts and the lucrative curial posts of procurator audientiae litterarum and papal credentiarius . [Starr, "Music and Music Patronage," 188-90.] Although his two months at St. Peter's represent the only recorded instance of a papal singer being "lent" to the basilica, this practice may have been an extension of earlier arrangements, by which papal singers worked at St. Peter's not for months at a time but for individual liturgical feasts. After May the basilica replaced Herbare with another northerner, Hervé.