Crespel

(mid sixteenth century)


French composer of whose life nothing is known. he left numerous chansons, among which Chant musical, invention divine, edited by Pierre Phalèse in 1553, and La Fricassée amongt which, amongst others, is found the Superius of the chanson Je prens en gré by Clemens Non Papa and the Bassus of Thomas Crecquillon's Toutes les nuits.





IVI: The French Chanson