Johannes Regis

Alias: Jehan Leroy

Life

Born: c. 1425

Died: c. 1496

Biography Regis surfaces in 1451 as Jehan Leroy, chorus master at the collegiate church of St Vincent, Soignies. 3 works (Missa crucis, Regina caeli, and a Missa ‘L’homme armé) were copied between 1462 and 1465 into now lost choirbooks at Cambrai cathedral between 1462 and 1465. He is among the singers listed in Loyset Compère's Omnium bonorum plena, and the will of Guillaume Dufay (1474) names Regis as his "clerc". Regis was scholasticus at St Vincent from 1462; the post was dissolved in early summer 1496, presumably following his death.

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List of choral works

Besides lost works, the following survive:

• Missa ‘L’homme armé’/‘Dum sacrum mysterium’, 4vv,
• Missa ‘Ecce ancilla Domini’/‘Ne timeas Maria’, 4vv
• Credo ‘vilayge’, 4vv
• Ave Maria … benedicta tu, 3vv
• Ave Maria … Virgo serena, 5vv, 1 of them missing
• Celsi tonantis/Abrahae fit promissio, 5vv
• Clangat plebs flores/Sicut lilium, 5vv
• Lauda Sion Salvatorem/Ego sum panis, 5vv
• Lux solempnis adest/Repleti sunt omnes, 5vv
• O admirabile commercium/Verbum caro, 5vv
• Salve sponsa, 5vv (5th v missing)
• Puis que ma dame/Je m’en voy, 4vv)
• S’il vous plaist, 4vv, also in version for 3vv
• Ave rosa speciosa/Beata mater et innupta virgo, 6vv (a doubtful attribution)
• Ave Maria … benedicta
• Celsi tonantis
• Lux solempnis adest
• O admirabile commercium

 
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Publications

• Chigi codex
• Motetti a cinque libro 1 (Petrucci, 1508)
• Opera omnia ed. C. Lindenburg, CMM, ix (1956)

External links

• Works by Johannes Regis in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)