Nicolas Payen [SEP] date of death
Nicolas Payen
Nicolas Payen (also Nicolas Colin) (c. 1512, in Soignies – after April 24, 1559) was a Franco-Flemish composer and choirmaster of the Renaissance, associated with the "Grande Chapelle", the Habsburg imperial chapel, at the end of the reign of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
Life.
Payen was born in Soignies, and received his earliest musical training in that town, in the church of St. Vincent. When he was about 13 years old he went to Spain
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Births.
- "date unknown" - Adam Gumpelzhaimer, Bavarian composer and music theorist (died 1625)
Deaths.
- October 2 – Jacquet of Mantua, composer (born 1483)
- "date unknown"
- Jacques Collebaut, Breton composer
- Nicolas Payen, choirmaster and composer (born c. 1512)