Pierre Attaingnant

Aliases: Attaignant, Pierre

Life

Born: c. 1494

Died: 1551 or 1552

Biography Attaingnant leased out a printing press 13 January 1514 (1513 Old Style) and is described in the contract as a "bookseller, living in Paris"; he published a breviary in 1525 and 2 years later began printing music, receiving a patent and in 1537 the title "imprimeur et libraire du Roy en musique". His death occurred between October 3 1551 and the end of 1552. He is not definitely known to have been a composer himself.

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List of choral works

• Tourdion

 
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Publications

• Chansons nouvelles en musique à quatre parties 1528
• Motetz nouvellement composez 1529
• Trente et cinq chansons musicales à quatre parties 1529
• Quarante et deux chansons musicales à troys parties 1529
• Vingt et neuf chansons musicales à quatre parties 1530
• Vingt et sept chansons musicales à quatre parties 1533
• Motettorum, Book 1 1534
• Motettorum, Book 7 1534
• Vingt et six chansons musicales a quatre parties 1534
• Livre premier contenant XXIX chansons à quatre parties 1535
• Premier livre contenant XXXI chansons musicales 1535
• Second livre contenant XXXI chansons musicales 1535
• Tiers livre contenant XXI chansons à quatre esleves de plusieurs livres 1536
• Chansons musicales esleves de plusieurs livres 1535-1536
• Second livre contenant XXV chansons nouvelles a quatre parties 1536
• Motettorum, Book 14 1539
• Livre 5: 25 chansons a 4 1540
• Livre 10: 28 chansons a 4 1541
• Livre 11: 28 chansons a 4 1542
• Livre 12: 30 chansons a 4 1543
• Livre 16: 29 chansons a 4 1545
• Livre 20: 28 chansons a 4 1546
• Livre 25: 28 chansons a 4 1547

External links

• Works by Pierre Attaingnant in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)