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Léonin
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Léonin (also Leoninus, Leonius, Leo; ) was the first known significant composer of polyphonic organum. He was probably French, probably lived and worked in Paris at the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was the earliest member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony and the ars antiqua style who is known by name, thanks to the writer known as Anonymous IV. Though no further identification is certain, the name "Leoninus" and its Latin diminutive Leo have the French equivalents Léonin/Léo.
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Léonin was a French composer who lived from 1135 to 1201. He was a male figure associated with the Notre Dame school and the ars antiqua genre. His work is categorized under medieval, early music, and 12th-century classical styles.
He is notably recognized for his work, the Magnus Liber. Léonin wrote in Latin. He is identified as a person in music databases and is linked to French music fields.
Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, VIAF. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1150
- Active to
- 1201
Discography
- Music of the Middle Ages, vol. II1958
- École Notre-Dame: Messe du Jour de Noël1985
- Organum Duplum / Organum Quadruplum / Messe de Nostre Dame / 5 Sacred Songs1996
- Sacred Music from 12th-century Paris1997
- The School of Notre Dame1997
- Sacred Music from 12th-century Paris – 22001
- Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral2005
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18,564
- Total plays
- 138,569
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Léonin (also Leoninus, Leonius, Leo) (fl. 1150s — d. ? 1201) is the first known significant composer of polyphonic organum. He was probably French, and he probably lived and worked in Paris at the Notre Dame Cathedral, and was the earliest member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony who is known by name. The name Léonin is derived from "Leoninus," which is the Latin diminutive of the name Leo, thus it is likely that Léonin's given French name was Léo. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/L%C3%A9o
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Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- 1135–1201
- Nationality
- FR
- Role / Field
- Kompozytorzy francuscy, Muzyka francuska
- Language
- fre
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 6 libraries
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Occupation
- composer
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Notable work
- Magnus Liber
- Movement
- Notre Dame school
- Image
- Codex montpellier P.jpg
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- Commons category
- Notre Dame school
- date of birth
- 1135-00-00
- date of death
- 1201-00-00
- name in native language
- Léonin
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Overview
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Léonin (also Leoninus, Leonius, Leo; ) was the first known significant composer of polyphonic organum. He was probably French, probably lived and worked in Paris at the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was the earliest member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony and the ars antiqua style who is known by name, thanks to the writer known as Anonymous IV. Though no further identification is certain, the name "Leoninus" and its Latin diminutive Leo have the French equivalents Léonin/Léo.
==Overview== All our knowledge about him starts from the writing of a 13c. student at the cathedral known as Anonymous IV, an Englishman who left a treatise on theory and who mentions Léonin as the composer of the Magnus Liber, the "great book" of organum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Léonin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.