Johannes Mangon (c. 1525 in Liège – 1578 in Aachen) was a Francophone Belgian composer. He was selected while a boy in Liége to join the choir at the Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, that is to say Aachen in modern Germany. He rose to become maître de chapelle.[1][2] Among his surviving works are 20 masses.[3][4] He died of the plague in 1578 and was succeeded by Lambertus de Monte (Liége, d.1606) and then Michael Wilhelm (fl. 1580–1610).
Works, editions and recordings edit
- O rex orbis: Officium in festo sancti Karoli. Vespers for 28 January on the eve of the Feast of Saint Charles – works by Johannes Mangon, Lambertus de Monte, Michael Wilhelm, Roland de Lassus, Exsultemus, Eric Rice. Musique en Wallonie 2013[5]
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- ^ Young Choristers, 650–1700 – Page 171 Susan Boynton, Eric N. Rice – 2008 "... its own members, for it was logical that some of the chapter's choirboys would return to Aachen to become canons. ... it was likely Wachtendonck who, through his two positions, brought Mangon and other Liégeois musicians to Aachen, ..."
- ^ Les musiciens liégeois au service des Habsbourg d'Autriche au ... – Page 155 Bénédicte Even-Lassmann – 2006 "Mangon reçoit la prébende de l'autel de Saint Denis à la cathédrale, prébende libérée par Adamus da Ponta. Mangon, basse, est ... J. Mangon d'Aix-la-Chapelle semble être mort peut-être de la grande peste qui sévit en 1578. Lambert de ..."
- ^ Monatshefte für Musikgeschichte – Volumes 9 à 10 – Page 30 Gesellschaft für Musikforschung 1877 "... in dem Archive des hiesigen Stiftskapitels (in Aachen) sich handschriftlich vorfindenden Sammlung von 22 Messen entnommen, von denen 20 von Johannes Mangon, eine von Petrus Chenemont und eine Johaunes Claux verfasst worden."
- ^ Die Messen des Johannes Mangon Rudolf Pohl Musikwissenschaft 1960
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