Arnold de Lantins (EN)

Arnold, Arnoldus, Arnaldus, de Lantins, de Lanctins, Lantinis, Latinis, Franco-Flemish composer who lived in the first half of the 15th century. He came from the Duchy of Liège. There is no detailed information about his life and work. All that is known is that he was a member of the papal chapel from November 1431 to July 1432, as he appears alongside G. Dufay on the list of singers in that chapel. In March 1428, he was probably in Venice, as evidenced by the date on two of his chansons: Si ne prenes de moi pitié and Quant je mire. His five-part mass is one of the oldest examples of a full-cycle mass.

Literature: Ch. Van den Borren Hugo et Arnold de Lantins, “Annales de la fédération archéologique et historiąue de Belgique” XXIX, 1932; W. Apel The Notation of Polyphonical Music 900–1600, Cambridge 1949; M.F. Bukofzer Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music, London 1951; H. Besseler Bourdon und Fauxbourdon, Leipzig 1956; P. Gossett Techniques of Unification in Early Cyclic Masses and Mass Pairs, “Journal of the American Musicological Society” XIX, 1966; G. Chew The Early Cyclic Mass as an Expression of Royal and Papal Supremacy, “Music and Letters” LIII, 1972; J. Widaman The Mass Ordinary Settings of Arnold de Lantins. A Case Study in the Transmission of Early Fifteenth-Century Music, thesis, Brandeis University 1988; R. Strohm Einheit und Funktion früher Messzyklen, in Festschrift for R. Bockholdt 1990; W. Arlt Italien als produktive Erfahrung franko-flämischer Musiker im 15. Jahrhundert, «Vorträge der Aeneas-Silvius-Stiftung an der Universität Basel» XXVI, Basel 1993.