Matthaeus Pipelare (born around 1450; died around 1515) was a Franco-Flemish composer and choirmaster of the Renaissance. Reliable information about his life is very scarce. Music historians suspect that he may have come from Leuven, but there is no evidence for this (as yet) . The account books from his later employment show that he came from Antwerp and took up his post at the ''Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap'' (Brotherhood of Our Lady) in 's-Hertogenbosch on March 14, 1498, remaining in this position until April 30, 1500.
Certain compositional features in Pipelare's masses correspond to the era of Antoine Busnoy (Jacob Obrecht, Josquin, Pierre de la Rue, and others) with conservative stylistic features that were not influenced by Italian music. Matthaeus Pipelare's chansons correspond to the homophonic style of secular music that was common between 1490 and 1510; only the French chanson “Ballade Vray dieu d'amours,” for example, has a fixed form.
Most of Pipelare's works were not widely distributed; notable exceptions were the mass “L'homme armé” and the mass and chanson (2nd version) on “Fors seulement,” of which up to 13 copies have survived and which were performed until the 1530s. Pipelare was mentioned above all by the music theorist Andreas Ornitoparchus (c. 1490–c. 1517) in his treatise ''Musicae activae micrologus'' (Leipzig, 1517), in which he names him as one of seven exceptionally talented composers whose works “flowed from the spring of the arts.”
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