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{{short description|Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Jacques Arcadelt | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1507|08|10|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Namur]], [[County of Namur]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1568|10|14|1507|08|10|df=y}} | death_place = Paris, [[Kingdom of France|France]] | occupation = {{cslist| Singer | composer }} | organizations = {{ubl | [[Sistine Chapel Choir]] | Paris Royal Chapel Choir }} | known_for = [[Madrigal]]s }} '''Jacques Arcadelt''' (also '''Jacob Arcadelt'''; 10 August 1507{{snd}}14 October 1568<ref name="Grove"/>) was a [[Franco-Flemish School|Franco-Flemish]] composer of the [[Renaissance music|Renaissance]], active in both Italy and France, and principally known as a composer of secular vocal music. Although he also wrote sacred vocal music, he was one of the most famous of the early composers of [[madrigal]]s; his first book of madrigals, published within a decade of the appearance of the earliest examples of the form, was the most widely printed collection of madrigals of the entire era.<ref>Harvard Dictionary of Music, p. 463</ref> In addition to his work as a madrigalist, and distinguishing him from the other prominent early composers of madrigals β [[Philippe Verdelot]] and [[Costanzo Festa]] β he was equally prolific and adept at composing [[chanson]]s, particularly late in his career when he lived in Paris.<ref name="Einstein, Vol. I p. 264">Einstein, Vol. I p. 264</ref> Arcadelt was the most influential member of the early phase of madrigal composition, the "classic" phase; it was through Arcadelt's publications, more than those of any other composer, that the madrigal became known outside of Italy. Later composers considered Arcadelt's style to represent an ideal; later reprints of his first madrigal book were often used for teaching, with reprints appearing more than a century after its original publication.<ref name="Grove">[[James Haar]]/Letitia Glozer, New Grove online</ref>
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