Alexander Agricola

Alexander Agricola , probably born towards 1446, died of the plague in Castille in 1506. This type-setter free-Flemish exerted his art in Italy, France and in the Netherlands.

He was initially with the service of Medicis Laurent Splendid the with Florence and of Jean Galéas Sforza in Milan, before exerting with Cambrai.

According to the testimony of a contemporary, he was a very large singer. From 1500, it was fixed at Brussels like successor of Antoine Busnois, then followed the Burgundian vault of Philippe Beautiful the in Castille. It is there that he died.

Works

Certain works of Alexander Agricola were transcribed for the lute by the German Hans Neusidler. A few years after its death, Eloy d' Amerval quotes it in its Livre of the mischief (1508).

External bonds

Goldberg, the gate of the old music

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