Jean de Castro was a Belgian Composer. Although he has virtually been forgotten in the revival of renaissance music he was during his life second only to Lassus in his popularity according to the Antwerp printer-publisher Christophe Plantin.

Despite the Spanish-sounding name Castro was a local from Liège, referred to as "nostre Castro" by the poet Etienne de Walcourt. He worked in Antwerp in the 1570s and was maitre de chapelle to the Duke of Juliers, Liége, in 1580.

Works

• Chansons, odes, et sonetz de Pierre Ronsard 1576; performing edition Jeanice Brooks 1994

Recordings

• Chansons sur des poèmes de Ronsard: Ensemble Clément Janequin
  Ensemble Clément Janequin
  The Ensemble Clément Janequin is a French early music ensemble founded in 1978 and specializing in the chansons of the Renaissance and early Baroque.The founder, and leader, is the countertenor Dominique Visse...
  
  , Dominique Visse
  Dominique Visse
  Dominique Visse is a French countertenor and founder of the Ensemble Clément Janequin. Visse devotes himself to performing of secular and religious music of the Renaissance. He is principally known for his interpretations of the Parisian chansons.He was a chorister in the Cathedral of Notre Dame...
  
  . Harmonia Mundi
• 7 Motets: Decantabat populus Israel. Resurrexi et adhuc tecum sum. Afflictus sum. O sacrum convivum. Judica me Domine. Regina Coeli. on Musica Sacra in Colonia, Cologne Musica Fiata, La Capella Ducale Roland Wilson
  Roland Wilson
  Sir Roland Knyvet Wilson was an English academic and political writer.Wilson was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. In 1867 he was a barrister and then ventured into journalism, working for the Weekly Reporter and Law Journal from 1867 to 1871...
  
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• 2000 - Jean de Castro: Polyphony in a European Perspective. Capilla Flamenca with More Maiorum, Piffaro, Trigon-Project, Wim Diepenhorst and Bart Demuyt. Passacaille 931.