Passereau, Pierre

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Passereau, Pierre

Passereau, Pierre, French composer who flourished in the first half of the 16th century. He was chapel singer to the Duke of Angoulême, and later of later Francis I. Twenty-three of his chansons were publ. in contemporary anthologies (1533–47). G. Dottin ed. his complete works (1967).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire