Quote of the day
I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse.
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.