Adam, de Saint-Victor, -1146

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Name (Latin)
Adam, de Saint-Victor, -1146
Other forms of name
Adam, de Saint-Victor, -1192
Adam, de Saint-Victor, d. 1192
Adam, of Saint Victor, -1146
Adam, of St. Victor, -1146
Breton, Adam Le, -1146
Le Breton, Adam, -1146
Date of birth
1122
Date of death
1146
Occupation
Composers
Poets
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 22137483
Wikidata: Q175053
Library of congress: n 88672870
Sources of Information
  • English Wikipedia website, viewed Mar. 26, 2014(Adam of Saint Victor (died 1146) was a prolific poet and composer of Latin hymns and sequences. He is believed to have sparked the expansion of the poetic and musical repertoire in the Notre Dame school with his strongly rhythmic and imagery-filled poetry. Note 1: It was previously believed that he died [in the] late 12th century (e.g. 1192), but that is now believed to be false)
  • His Sequences, 2013(Adam of Saint-Victor ([obiit/died] 1146)
  • New Grove online, viewed Mar. 26, 2014(Adam of Saint Victor ((d St Victor, Paris, 1146). French writer of sequences. Previously thought to have died late in the 12th century but now known to have been active much earlier in the century, he was a seminal figure in the development of the sequence repertory)
  • Recueil complet des célèbres séquences du vénérable maître Adam Le Breton ..., 1901:t.p. (chanoine régulier de l'Abbaye royale de Saint-Victor de Paris (XIIe siècle)) pref. (known as "de Saint-Victor")
  • So blessedly it sprung, c1996:caption (Adam of St. Victor)
  • nuc88-125572: His Œuvres poétiques, 1980(hdg. on CtW rept.: Adam, de Saint-Victor, d. 1192; usage: Adam de Saint-Victor)