Léonin, active 12th century

LC control no.	n 87807575
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Léonin, active 12th century *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Leo, active 12th century Léonin, 12th cent. Leoninus, Magister, active 12th century Leonius, Magister, active 12th century Leonius, of Paris, active 12th century
Beginning date	11
Associated place	Paris (France)
Profession or occupation	Priests Composers Poets
Found in	Ensemble organum. Leonin [SR] p1985. New Grove (Léonin (Magister Leoninus; ?Leo) fl. Paris c1163-90; composer of organum; no works survive ascribed to him) Grove music online, Aug. 30, 2004 (Leoninus (Magister Leoninus; Magister Leonius; Leo; Léonin); fl. 1150s-c1201, Paris; composer of polyphony, including organum and, probably, conductus; no works ascribed to him in musical sources or by contemporaneous theorists) Interpretation of Scripture: practice, 2015: title page (Leonius of Paris) page 475 (musicologist Craig Wright has identified the musician Magister Leoninus, a composer of organum at Notre Dame, with Leonius the poet, who was a canon and priest of the collegiate church of St. Benôit and was also associated with the Abbey of St. Victor; Leonius was the author of the Historia Veteris Testamenti) Journal of Medieval Latin, v. 10 (2000): page 239 (Master Leoninus (ca. 1135-1201); Leoninus, a canon, poet and musician at the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris during the second half of the twelfth century) The Oxford companion to music, viewed online on December 3, 2015 (Léonin; Leoninus; canon, poet, and composer; active at St Benôit and later Notre Dame, Paris; chief poetic work is Hystorie sacre gestas ab origine mundi; his compositional activity is mentioned by the English theorist known as Anonymous IV, writing around 1270, who states that he was "optimus organista" (i.e. best composer of organum))