Antonius [Antoine] Bruhier
Noyon; maître de chapelle in the cathedral of Langres, 1504; in the service of Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, 1508 ; earliest reference, payment of September 1513 ; payment as a member of the musici segreti , September 1513 -March 1521 ; beneficial documents : RS 1425, fols. 24v-25r: supplication dated 22 September 1513 , RS 1419, fols. 213r-213v: supplication dated 7 August 1513 , RS 1601, fols. 157r-157v: undated supplication [April-June 1519 ]; see FREY (1955): 61-62 for a bull dated 1 November 1517 .
Although, Bruhier is consistently listed among the musici segreti , he always receives a salary of 8 ducats as opposed to the 5 ducats received by the other cantori segreti (see the motu proprio below and FREY (1955): 413-415). This may mean that he was from the beginning also a member of the papal choir, although this is not specified until the bull reported in FREY . See SHERR (1983) and discussion under Festa for problems with the date of that document.
Document
RAS, Camerale I 859
104r
Undated motu proprio
mandatum pro Antonio Bruhier
fl 8
Depostiariis generalibus
Motu proprio etc. Monemur omni ratione et cause confirmare prout tenore presentium confirmamus dilecto filio Antonio Bruhier cantori nostro secreto qui in nostris et sedis apostolicis obsequiis impendere non desistat ut se commodius sustentari valeret provisionem octo ducatos auri de camera singulo menses de pecuniis camere apostolice pro depositarios nostrorum generales persolvendos mensibus preteritio constituimus et assignamus prout de novo pro presentis constituimus et assignamus mandantes propterea venerabili fratri nostro R. Episcopo Ostiensis camerario nostro et dilectis filiis thesauarario presidentibus et clericis camere nostre apostlice et aliis ad quos spectat non obstantibus cetere rotulo in quo nomina salariatorum continentur manu nostra subscripto et thesaurario nostro dato prefatus dicyis octo ducatos eidem Antonio singulis mensibus respondeat et solvant ac respondiri et solui faciant scripturasque desuper neccessarias et opportunas expediri faciant et mandantes et in contrareium faciendum non obstantibus quibuscumque.
Placet et ita mandamus J
108r
undated motu proprio
[the motu proprio on 107v is dated 2 April 1514 ]
BIBLIOGRAPHY: François LESURE , "La Maitrise de Langres au XVIe Siècle," Revue de Musicologie 52 (1966): 202-03; Richard SHERR , "Notes on Some Papal Documents in Paris," Studi Musicali 12 (1983): 5-16; Lewis LOCKWOOD , "Adrian Willaert and Cardinal Ippolito I d'Este: New Light on Willaert's Early Career in Italy 1515 -21," Early Music History , 5 (1985): 111.