2/12/2023 0 Comments Susato brass quintet sheet musicSoon afterwards, Susato was joined by Pierre Phalèse at Leuven and Christopher Plantin, also in Antwerp, and the Low Countries became a regional center of music publishing. From 1543 until his death he worked as a music publisher, creating the first music press in the Netherlands until then printing had mainly been done in Italy, France and Germany. Not much is known about his early life, but he begins appearing in various Antwerp archives of around 1530 working as a calligrapher as well as an instrumentalist: trumpet, flute and tenor pipe are listed as instruments that he owned. While his place of birth is unknown, some scholars believe that because of his name?Susato meaning de Soest, of the town of Soest ? he may be from the town of that name in Westphalia. 1510/15 ? after 1570) was a Flemish Renaissance composer, instrumentalist and publisher of music in Antwerp.
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