Renaissance festival tielman susato biography
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Renaissance Festival & Dances is an elegant three movement suite of works by 16th century composers Tielman Susato and Antony Holborne....
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Tielman Susato offers his Chanson book to Maria of Hungary, governess of the Netherlands, woodcut from “vingt et six chansons musicales & nouvelles”, printed in Antwerp by Tielman Susato, in 1545 / Wikimedia Commons
You can’t find very many trombonists in basic music history textbooks, but some like Gustav Holst and Tielman Susato (ca.1510-after 1570) belong there for their other achievements.
As a member of the town band in the Flemish city of Antwerp, Susato played a variety of instruments.
He was also a composer of some merit, but his reputation rests on the publishing company he founded and ran for 18 years.
It used to be thought that he died about the time his publishing company ceased operations, but as it turns out, he moved to Sweden and, among other things, dabbled in international diplomacy!
Born outside Cologne, Susato moved to Antwerp in 1529 and worked as a calligrapher for the church of Our Lady.
Two years later,