Quote of the day
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Johannes Tinctoris
Born: 1435
Died: 1511 (aged 76)
Bio: Johannes Tinctoris was a Renaissance composer and music theorist from the Low Countries. He is known to have studied in Orléans, and to have been master of the choir there; he also may have been director of choirboys at Chartres.