Jean mouton

By Manuel Errea and Carlos Carrillo

Jean MoutonJean Mouton

• 1459- 1522

• Was a French composer of the Renaissance.

•  He was famous for his motets, which are among the finest ones of the era.

• He was the teacher of Adrian Willaert, one of the founders of the Venetian school.

About his lifeAbout his life

• He became a priest.

• In 1500 was in charge of a children's choir in the cathedral of Amiens. 

• In 1501 he was in Grenoble, teaching choirboys, but left the next year

• In 1509 again was granted a position in Grenoble he could hold in absentia.

• Mouton was the main composer of the French court.

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• For the rest of his life he worked for the french court.

• One way or another, often wrote music for:

• weddings• coronations • papal elections • births and deaths

• His first job was probably, singer and teacher of the collegiate Nesle (southeast of Amiens),

• in 1477, and in 1483 became maître de chapelle there.

• His music was reprinted and continued to attract other composers even in the 16th century.

• Noe, noe psallite noe was later used as a base for other’s compositons.

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Ave Maria –Jean Mouton