Orto (real name, Dujardin), Marbrianus de

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Orto (real name, Dujardin), Marbrianus de

Orto (real name, Dujardin), Marbrianus de, Franco-Flemish singer and composer; b. probably in the Tournai diocese, c. 1460; d. Nivelles, c.Feb. 1529. He was the illegitimate offspring of a priest. He sang in the papal choir in Rome (1483–99?), and was also dean of the collegiate church of St. Gertrude in Nivelles (1489–96). In 1505 he was in the service of Philip the Fair of Burgundy, and was legitimized; went to Spain with him in 1506, and was ennobled. After Philip’s death that same year, he entered the service of his son, Archduke Charles, later Emperor Charles V, being active at his chapel until at least 1518. Petrucci publ, a book of five masses by him (Venice, 1505), as well as 11 chansons for four voices in the Odhecaton (1500–03) and a Lamentation in Lamentationum Jeremias prophetae liber I (1506).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis Mclntire