1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ARCADELT, or ARCHAOELT, JACOB d. ISM-C. 1556), a Netherlands composer, of the early part of the Golden Age. In 1 539 he left a position at Florence to teach the choristers of St Peter's, Rome, and became one of the papal singers in 1 540. He was a prolific church composer, but the works published in his Italian time consist entirely of madrigals, five books of which, published at Venice, probably gave a great stimulus to the beginnings of the Venetian school of composition. In 1555 he left Italy and entered the ser…
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