Johannes Ciconia: O Rosa Bella

Johannes Ciconia (b Liège, c 1335 or c 1373; d Padua, 10 June13 July 1412). Liégeois composer and theorist. Two men of the name are known. The elder was in service in Avignon in 1350, accompanied Cardinal Albornoz on an Italian campaign, 135867, and returned to Liège in 1372 as a priest at St John the Evangelist. A Liège document of 1385 however refers also to a choirboy called Johannes Ciconia, and recent opinion favours the younger Ciconia as the composer, which is more plausible on grounds of musical s