Mathurin Forestier

Mathurin Forestier (fl. c. 1500) was a French Renaissance composer.^[1]

Works

• Missa L'homme arme^[2]
• Missa Baises moy, after the song Baisez Moi attributed to Josquin^[3]
• Veni sancte spiritus, formerly attributed to Josquin

References

1. Richard Sherr -The Josquin Companion v 1 p 318 0198163355 2000 "Standing apart from it is Uppsala 76b, a manuscript of French origin, which attributes the motet instead to Mathurin Forestier. Little is known about Forestier' s life, and his surviving work includes nothing that is directly comparable to Veni ..."
2. Katelijne Schiltz, Bonnie J. Blackburn -Canons and Canonic Techniques, 14th-16th Centuries: p 125 9042916818 2007 "Eric Rice Composers of masses based on the famous L'homme arme melody generally concentrated their efforts on the ... in which the cantus firmus is treated canonically in the two middle parts; and Mathurin Forestier's L'homme arme mass, ..."
3. The Voice of Chorus America v 23-24 p 21 1999 "Baises moy and a Mass based on that song, Missa Baises moy by his little-known contemporary Mathurin Forestier."