Bernard de Ventadour
Also recorded as Bernat del Ventadorn
Bernard de Ventadour

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- Born
- 1140
- Died
- 1190
- Nationality
- Kingdom of France
- Occupation
- troubadour · composer · poet
- Movements
- medieval music
- Known for
- Lyrical poems
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Bernard de Ventadour born at Moustier-Ventadour.
1190
Bernard de Ventadour died at Sainte-Trie.
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- 1.Quanti nominis quanteve fame sit Bernardus e Ventator, et quam gloriosa fecerit canciones et dulcisonas invenerit melodias, multe orbis provincie reconoscunt. Ipsum ergo magnificentie vestre duximos conmendandum (Boase, 5).
Bibliography printed in the source article · 9
- Falck, Robert. Bernart de Ventadorn. Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. 2001. 978-1-56159-263-0.
- Garland Publishing. Lyrics of the Middle Ages:An anthology. 1990. 978-0-8240-7049-6.
- Aubrey, Elizabeth (1996). The Music of the Troubadours. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. .
- Boase, Roger (1977). The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love: A Critical Study of European Scholarship. Manchester: Manchester University Press. .
- Herman, Mark and Ronnie Apter, trans. (1999). A Bilingual Edition of the Love Songs of Bernart de Ventadorn in Occitan and English: Sugar and Salt. Ceredigion: Edwin Mellen Press. .
- Hoppin, Richard. Medieval Music. W. W. Norton & Company. 1978. 978-0-393-09090-1.
- Ippolito, Marguerite-Marie (2001). Bernard de Ventadour: troubadour limousin du XII e : prince de l'amour et de la poésie romane. Paris: L'Harmattan. .
- Lazar, Moshé, ed. (1966). Bernart de Ventadour: Chansons d'Amour. Paris: Klincksieck.
- Merwin, W. S. (2002). "The Mays of Ventadorn." National Geographic. .
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