BiografyOperaPhotosWorksLiederMp3sMidisShopTools
Composers Biography                                                  
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
vuoto.gif (49 byte)

Claudin de Sermisy

(c. 1490 - 1562)
 

[ Life | Works | Photo Gallery | Home Page]

not.gif (21896 byte)

Claudin de Sermisy Life

 

Claudin de Sermisy occupied a position of contemporary importance in French music, serving the successive Kings of France and the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris in the first half of the 16th century.

MIDI FILE - O doulce amour (1'20'')

Claudin de Sermisy Works

 

Church music by Claudin includes a dozen surviving Mass settings and some 110 motets, a St. Matthew Passion, settings of the Magnificat and a four-voice Lamentations for the Holy Week liturgy.

MIDI FILE - Mon coeur voulut (1'23'')

Claudin made an equally significant addition to the repertoire of French chansons with some 175 works of this kind.

MIDI FILE - Languir me fais (1'36'')