Caron, Philippe Firmin(ius) (lived 1450–80)

Flemish or French composer, much praised by writers of the time. Four of his Masses and nearly 20 chansons survive. He may have had some connection with the Burgundian court, although it has proved impossible to identify him firmly with any surviving documentation. He is called ‘Firminius Caron’ in Tinctoris's Liber de Arte Contrapuncti (1477).