Surname
Lamberti Brabant (attr.)
Given Name
Johannes
Variant Name
Jehan
Lambertus
Lambert
Place of birth
Dordrecht (?)
Active period
circa 1430 - 1464
Workplace
Cambrai
Institution
Cathédrale de Cambrai
Biography
Brabant, Lambertus
(fl c1430). Composer, presumably Franco-Flemish. His two known works are found only in I-AO 15: a Gloria (ascribed ‘l. Brabant’ in the index as well as over the music) and a Credo (ascribed ‘lamberti brabant’ in the index only); they are edited in Cobin. Both are for two voices in the same range (an unusual texture, see Virilas), and it is plain from their placing in the manuscript that the copyist viewed them as a pair (though the Gloria cadences on A, the Credo on G).
He may well be the Johannes Lamberti Brabant who was paid as a singer at Cambrai Cathedral from 1439–40 and a canon from 1442, who died in 1464–5 (Houdoy, 264, 391). The Johannes Lamberts who sang at St Donatian, Bruges, in 1461 is surely too late to be the composer; but it is marginally possible that he is to be identified with Jehan Lambert, dit de la Bassee, a singer in the Burgundian Court chapel paid from 1436 until the end of 1467 (on a list wrongly dated 1468 in Marix, p.260).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. Houdoy: Histoire artistique de la Cathédrale de Cambrai (Lille, 1880/R)
J. Marix: Histoire de la musique et des musiciens de la cour de Bourgogne sous le règne de Philippe le Bon (1420–1467) (Strasbourg, 1939)
M.W. Cobin: The Aosta Manuscript: a Central Source of Early-Fifteenth-Century Sacred Polyphony (diss., New York U., 1978)
S. Meyer-Eller: Musikalischer Satz und Überlieferung von Messensätzen des 15. Jahrhunderts: die Ordinariumsvertonungen der Handschriften Aosta 15 und Trient 87/92 (Munich, 1989)
DAVID FALLOWS
(fl c1430). Composer, presumably Franco-Flemish. His two known works are found only in I-AO 15: a Gloria (ascribed ‘l. Brabant’ in the index as well as over the music) and a Credo (ascribed ‘lamberti brabant’ in the index only); they are edited in Cobin. Both are for two voices in the same range (an unusual texture, see Virilas), and it is plain from their placing in the manuscript that the copyist viewed them as a pair (though the Gloria cadences on A, the Credo on G).
He may well be the Johannes Lamberti Brabant who was paid as a singer at Cambrai Cathedral from 1439–40 and a canon from 1442, who died in 1464–5 (Houdoy, 264, 391). The Johannes Lamberts who sang at St Donatian, Bruges, in 1461 is surely too late to be the composer; but it is marginally possible that he is to be identified with Jehan Lambert, dit de la Bassee, a singer in the Burgundian Court chapel paid from 1436 until the end of 1467 (on a list wrongly dated 1468 in Marix, p.260).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
J. Houdoy: Histoire artistique de la Cathédrale de Cambrai (Lille, 1880/R)
J. Marix: Histoire de la musique et des musiciens de la cour de Bourgogne sous le règne de Philippe le Bon (1420–1467) (Strasbourg, 1939)
M.W. Cobin: The Aosta Manuscript: a Central Source of Early-Fifteenth-Century Sacred Polyphony (diss., New York U., 1978)
S. Meyer-Eller: Musikalischer Satz und Überlieferung von Messensätzen des 15. Jahrhunderts: die Ordinariumsvertonungen der Handschriften Aosta 15 und Trient 87/92 (Munich, 1989)
DAVID FALLOWS