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Marcabru
Sign in to savethumb|A miniature portrait of Marcabru beside his vida in a 13th-century chansonnier. Marcabru (; fl. 1130–1150) is one of the earliest troubadours whose poems are known. There is no certain information about him; the two vidas attached to his poems tell different stories, and both are evidently built on hints in the poems; not on independent information.
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Marcabru was a male troubadour, poet, composer, and author from France. He was associated with the medieval music movement and wrote in Old Occitan. His professional activity spanned from 1130 to 1150.
He was born in Gascony and died in Auvillar. His notable work includes the collection *Poesies complètes du troubadour Marcabru*. He is categorized as a person in various music databases and is tagged with descriptors such as troubadour, medieval, early music, french, and medieval folk.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Poesies complètes du troubadour Marcabru
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1100
- Active to
- 1150
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- Listeners
- 5,011
- Total plays
- 15,413
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Marcabru (fl. 1130-1150) is one of the earliest troubadours whose poems are known. There is no certain information about him; the two vidas attached to his poems tell different stories, and both are evidently built on hints in the poems, not on independent information. According to the brief life in MS. BNF 12473 Marcabrun was from Gascony (details of the dialect of his poems support this) and was the son of a poor woman named Marcabruna. He made bad poems and bad satires, and spoke evil of wom
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Gascony
- Place of death
- Auvillar
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- Old Occitan
- Movement
- medieval music
- Image
- BnF ms. 12473 fol. 102 - Marcabru (2).jpg
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- Commons category
- Marcabru
- date of death
- 1200-01-01
- date of birth
- 1110-00-00
- end of work period
- 1150-00-00
- start of work period
- 1130-00-00
- writing language
- Old Occitan
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Marcabru, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
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thumb|A miniature portrait of Marcabru beside his vida in a 13th-century chansonnier. Marcabru (; fl. 1130–1150) is one of the earliest troubadours whose poems are known. There is no certain information about him; the two vidas attached to his poems tell different stories, and both are evidently built on hints in the poems; not on independent information.
According to the brief life in the BnF ms. 12473, Marcabrun was from Gascony (details of the dialect of his poems support this) and was the son of a poor woman named Marcabrunela. This evidently comes from a reading of poem 293,18.
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