Gaspar de Verlit or Gaspar Verlit (1622–1682) was a Baroque composer

Baroque music

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, first chorister and later also a singer at the court chapel in Brussels

Brussels

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, choirmaster at St.Vincent’s Church in Soignies

Soignies

Soignies is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut.The municipality is composed of the Town of Soignies together with the villages of Casteau, Chaussée-Notre-Dame-Louvignies, Horrues, Neufvilles, Naast and Thieusies...

 (Zinnik) and singing master at St. Nicolas Church in Brussels. In 1658, he became chaplain

Chaplain

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 at the court chapel. He published two anthologies : Missae

Mass (music)

The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy to music...

 et motet

Motet

In classical music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions.-Etymology:The name comes either from the Latin movere, or a Latinized version of Old French mot, "word" or "verbal utterance." The Medieval Latin for "motet" is motectum, and the Italian...

tae nec non quator antiphonae

Antiphon

An antiphon in Christian music and ritual, is a "responsory" by a choir or congregation, usually in Gregorian chant, to a psalm or other text in a religious service or musical work....

 B. Maria

Mary (mother of Jesus)

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e Virginis (1661 and 1668). Further, four more sacral works survived, of which one has not been completely preserved. The Cantiones Natalitiae appeared in 1660. Such Christmas carol

Christmas carol

A Christmas carol is a carol whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas or the winter season in general and which are traditionally sung in the period before Christmas.-History:...

s were also published by Brussels composer Ioannes Florentius a Kempis

Joannes Florentius a Kempis

Joannes Florentius a Kempis was a Baroque composer from the Southern Netherlands.Joannes Florentius was the fifth son of the probably more famous Nicolaes a Kempis. Like his father, Joannes Florentius was also a composer and an organist. Between 1670 and 1672, he succeeded to his father’s...

, organist at the ‘Chapel of Our Lady’ Church. His anthology of Christmas carols was published in 1657 while these by Guillielmus Borremans, singing master at the Saint Gaugericus Church, and by Gaspar, were published in 1660.

Sources

• The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, London
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• Die Wettener Liederhandschrift und ihre Beziehungen zu den niederlandischen Cantiones Natalitiae des 17. Jahrhunderts by Wilhelm Schepping, editor: Rudolf Rasch, in Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, D. 29ste, Afl. 1ste (1979), pp. 62-68
• Web site with information about the Cantiones Natalititiae