Johannes Ciconia: O Rosa Bella

Johannes Ciconia (b Liège, c 1335 or c 1373; d Padua, 10 June-13 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, 1358-67, 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