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Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance

Jacques Arcadelt (also Jacob Arcadelt; 10 August 1507 – 14 October 1568^[1]) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in both Italy and France, and principally known as a composer of secular vocal music.

Although he also wrote sacred vocal music, he was one of the most famous of the early composers of madrigals; his first book of madrigals, published within a decade of the appearance of the earliest examples of the form, was the most widely printed collection of madrigals of the entire era.^[2] In addition to his work as a madrigalist, and distinguishing him from the other prominent early composers of madrigals – Philippe Verdelot and Costanzo Festa – he was equally prolific and adept at composing chansons, particularly late in his career when he lived in Paris.^[3]

Arcadelt was the most influential member of the early phase of madrigal composition, the "cla