07/10/2022
Whether Johannes Tinctoris and Barbingant ever met, we do not know. However, it is becoming increasingly apparent, that both composers are still widely underestimated in their impact on contemporaries and the generation after them. Johannes Tinctoris, for example, about whose biography we know quite a bit, is known today primarily as a theorist.
Of Barbingant we know next to nothing. Even with the use of forensic methods, neither his first name nor the period of his activity can be clarified. However, the sparse sources allow us to conclude that his creative period can be narrowed down to approximately 1440 to 1460. Thus, the mysterious Maître Barbingant is one of the most innovative composers of his time, whose music apparently radiated beyond Johannes Ockeghem.
