Faignient: Music and War in Antwerp 1568-1598

Join Diapente as we sing the music of the Spanish Netherlands and explore the impetus for the Dutch Revolt: kicking off a wave of violence that culminated in the Sacking of Antwerp and the Spanish Fury, forever changing the course of the late Renaissance.

In Faignient: Music and War in Antwerp 1568-1598, we use the music of one important yet unknown composer, Noë Faignient, and the music of his renowned contemporaries (Orlando di Lasso, Jacobus Clemens non Papa, and more) as portals, letting us delve into the turbulent history of the Eighty Years' War and the rise and fall of one of the richest cities of the Renaissance:

Antwerpen / Anvers