A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Bilhon, Jean de

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From volume 1 of the work.

1502843A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Bilhon, Jean deGeorge GroveJames Robert Sterndale-Bennett


BILHON, Jean de, a French composer, contemporary with Josquin des Prés. Some of his masses, founded, as usual at the time, upon the themes of old French chansons, are preserved in the Pontifical Chapel, where he was for some time a singer. Other compositions of his are to be found in various collections of church music published between the years 1534 and 1544 at Paris and Leyden.