ARCADELT, JAKOB

ARCADELT, JAKOB. – Musician, born in Flanders (1514?), a pupil of Josquin des Prés. After a brief stay in Florence, he came to Rome (1536), where he was appointed master of the choirboys in the Cappella Giulia at St Peter’s (1539) and subsequently papal singing chaplain and camerlengo abbot. In 1555 he followed Carlo di Lorena, duke of Guise, to Paris and received the title of Regius musicus. He died, perhaps in Paris itself, after 1560. His Masses (one book for four voices, and another for three and five voices, published in Paris by Le Roy in 1545 and 1557) and his motets were published in collections of the period and reprinted in modern ones by Maldeghem, Eitner, Riemann, Mosskova, Commer (Collectio, VII, 21: a Pater noster), in the Musical Times (no. 183: an Ave Maria transcribed by Liszt), etc.