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Jacques Arcadelt

1507 - 1568

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Jacques Arcadelt (also Jacob Arcadelt; 10 August 1507 – 14 October 1568) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in both Italy and France, and principally known as a composer of secular vocal music. Although he also wrote sacred vocal music, he was one of the most famous of the early composers of madrigals; his first book of madrigals, published within a decade of the appearance of the earliest examples of the form, was the most widely printed collection of madrigals of the entire era. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Arcadelt is the 245th most popular composer (up from 379th in 2019), the 122nd most popular biography from Belgium (up from 190th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Belgian Composer.

Jacques Arcadelt is most famous for his madrigals. He also wrote motets, chansons, and other sacred music.

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Among composers, Jacques Arcadelt ranks 245 out of 1,451. Before him are Mykola Leontovych, Marcel Dupré, Giacomo Carissimi, Otto Nicolai, Pietro Locatelli, and Alessandro Marcello. After him are Gaspare Spontini, Jerry Goldsmith, Carl Friedrich Abel, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Maurizio Pollini, and Ambroise Thomas.

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Among people born in 1507, Jacques Arcadelt ranks 5. Before him are Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Jiajing Emperor, Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal, and Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola. After him are Altan Khan, Johannes Sturm, Ferrante Gonzaga, Inés Suárez, Bálint Bakfark, Marie of Baden-Sponheim, and Alvise I Mocenigo. Among people deceased in 1568, Jacques Arcadelt ranks 6. Before him are Carlos, Prince of Asturias, Elisabeth of Valois, Albert, Duke of Prussia, Jean Parisot de Valette, and Lady Katherine Grey. After him are Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Stanislaus Kostka, Andrés de Urdaneta, Sophie of Pomerania, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, and Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jacques Arcadelt ranks 122 out of 1,190. Before him are Félicien Rops (1833), Leo Baekeland (1863), Henri Pirenne (1862), Ferdinand Verbiest (1623), Adriaen Brouwer (1605), and Paul Deschanel (1855). After him are Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522), Frans Snyders (1579), Catharina van Hemessen (1528), David Teniers the Younger (1610), Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (1724), and Jacob Le Maire (1585).

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Among COMPOSERS In Belgium

Among composers born in Belgium, Jacques Arcadelt ranks 11. Before him are Johannes Ockeghem (1410), Adrian Willaert (1490), Henri Vieuxtemps (1820), Gilles Binchois (1400), Jacob Obrecht (1457), and Eugène Ysaÿe (1858). After him are Pierre De Geyter (1848), Cipriano de Rore (1515), Heinrich Isaac (1450), Alexander Agricola (1446), Charles Auguste de Bériot (1802), and Johannes Tinctoris (1435).

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