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  • "chapelle," seek for admission at the establishment of mother S---, who, after employing them for a time in various menial offices, and making them pluck off their eyebrows hair by hair, generally dismisses them on the plea of sluttishness; whereupon they return to their papas to eat the bread of the country, with the comfortable prospect of eating it still in the shape of a pension after their sires are dead.

    The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842

  • It appears that the imperial chapel was reorganized in 1545, and Crecquillon probably then relinquished the position of maître de chapelle, which was united with that of maître des enfants, with Cornelius Canis assuming the combined role.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Vannes stated that he was a choirboy at Arras Cathedral in 1525; most other facts about his early life are drawn from the title-pages of his five important publications: he was director of the choir at Tours Cathedral in 1539, master of the choirboys at Tournai Cathedral in 1545 and maître de chapelle there later that year.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • When Brumel left in 1502, Margaret engaged as His successor Antoine de Longueval, later to pursue a glittering career in the service of King Francis I, whose maître de chapelle he became.

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  • Although this citation has generally been taken as evidence that Prioris was still the king's maistre de chapelle at the time, Vatican documents refer to Hylaire Bernoneau as ‘magister capelle Christianissimi francorum regis’ as early as 1510.

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  • Crecquillon is named as ‘maistre de la chapelle’ three times and had apparently succeeded Adrian Thibault dit Pickart at some time after August 1538.

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  • Some references incorrectly call him imperial maître de chapelle or music director, titles then actually held by the now nearly forgotten composer Adrien Thibault called Pickart and later by Thomas Crecquillon.

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  • Prioris presumably held that position for at least four more years; the chronicler Jean d'Auton placed him, again identified as maistre de chapelle, with Louis XII at the siege of Genoa in April 1507.

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  • Funeral services will take place at la chapelle du Centre funeraire Cote-des-Neiges, 4525 chemin de la cote-des-neiges in Montreal at 9 a.m., Friday August 1 followed by the niche interment at 10 a.m. at the cimetiere Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, 4601, chemin de la Cote-des-Neiges, Montreal.

    Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, 1963-2008 Dodie Bellamy 2008

  • Funeral services will take place at la chapelle du Centre funeraire Cote-des-Neiges, 4525 chemin de la cote-des-neiges in Montreal at 9 a.m., Friday August 1 followed by the niche interment at 10 a.m. at the cimetiere Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, 4601, chemin de la Cote-des-Neiges, Montreal.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008

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