A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Caron, Firmin

by Mary Catherine Hamilton

CARON, Firmin, a composer of the 15th century, probably born about 1420. He is said by Tinctor to have been the scholar of Binchois or Dufay. The name is Flemish. Baini ('Palestrina') states that the Library of the Pope's Chapel possesses a MS. volume of masses by Caron, containing one on 'L'omme armé.' Caron also wrote secular songs, some of which were known to M. Fétis, who found them to surpass those of Ockenheim and Busnois in ease. One of them begins 'Helas! que pourra devenir.'

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