Verdelot, Philippe
Verdelot, Philippe
Verdelot, Philippe, noted French composer; b. Verdelot, Les Loges, Seine-et-Marne, c. 1470-80; d. before 1552. He made his way to northern Italy, and by 1522 he was in Florence, where he served as maestro di cappella at the Baptisterium S. Giovanni (1523-25) and at the Cathedral (1523-27); he also was in Rome (1523-24). With the siege of Florence (1529-30), Verdelot disappeared from the pages of history. His extant works include two masses, one known as Philomena,a Magnificat sexti toni,some 58 motets, numerous madrigals, including some publ. in Madrigali a cinque, libro primo (Venice, c. 1535), and four chansons. His madrigals and motets were widely disseminated in the 16thcentury. A number of works attributed to him are of doubtful authenticity. The Opera omnia,ed. by A.-M. Bragard in Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, began publication in 1966.
Bibliography
D. Hersh, P. V. and the Early Madrigal (diss., Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, 1963); A.-M. Bragard, Étude bio-bibliographique sur P. V., musicien français de la Renaissance (Brussels, 1964); N. Böker-Heil, Die Motetten von P. V.(Cologne, 1967).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire