ARCADELT, JAKOB. — Musician, born in Flanders (1514?) and a pupil of Josquin des Prés. After a brief stay in Florence, he came to Rome (1536), where he was appointed maestro of the boy singers in the Cappella Giulia at St Peter’s (1539) and later papal singer and abbot camerlengo. In 1555 he followed Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, to Paris and received the title of Regius musicus. He died, perhaps in the same city, after 1560. His Masses (a four-voice book and another in three and five voices, published in Paris by Le Roy in 1545 and 1557) and his motets appeared in contemporary collections and have been reprinted in modern editions 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.
ARCADELT, JAKOB
BIBL.: R. Eitner, Bibliographie der Musiksammelwerke des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts, Berlin 1877; A. Pirro, in Revue de Musicologie, 2 (1927), pp. 97 ff.