Brumel, Antoine (c. 1460-c. 1515)

French composer. A contemporary of Josquin Desprez, he wrote 15 surviving Masses, including Et ecce terrae motus for 12 voices, and L'homme armé and Missa pro defunctis, both for 4 voices.

He also wrote sequences, antiphons, motets, chansons, and instrumental music based on popular melodies of the day. He was a singer at Chartres Cathedral in 1483, a canon at Laon in 1497, and from 1498 to 1501 choirmaster at Notre Dame in Paris. In 1506 he went to the court of the Duke of Ferrara, Italy, where he may have died.