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Italian composer

Cipriano de Rore (occasionally Cypriano) ( or – between 11 and 20 September ) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in Italy.

Cuprian De Rore, or Cipriano de Rore, as he signed his name in his letters, was twenty-seven years old, perhaps twenty-eight, and he had not published any of.

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Cipriano De Rore was a Flemish composer who was born in /6 in Ronse, a small town between Brussels and Courtrai (Belgium, in the 16th century The.

Cipriano de Rore is principally known for his Italian madrigals, published in several collections during his life-time and immediately after his death.

The Milan Partbooks: Evidence of Cipriano de Rore's Compositional Process.

Not only a central representative of the generation of Franco-Flemish composers after Josquin des Prez who went to live and work in Italy, Rore was one of the most prominent composers of madrigals in the middle of the 16th century.

His experimental, chromatic, and highly expressive style had a decisive influence on the subsequent development of that secular music form.^[1]

Life

Early years

Little is known of Rore's early life.

His probable birth years (/) are known from his age at death (49, recorded on his tombstone in the cathedral in Parma), and his probable birthplace was a small town in Flanders, Ronse (Renaix), on the boundary between the French- and Dutch-speaking areas.^[2] Research has established that his parents were Celestinus Rore (died before ) and Barbara Va