{"url":"http://digitalduchemin.org/person/28/","full_name":"Le Rat","analyses":[],"person_id":"97","surname":"Le Rat","given_name":null,"birth_date":null,"death_date":null,"active_date":"1540's-1550's","alt_spelling":null,"remarks":"French composer active 1549 to 1557. Total of seven chansons ascribed to Le Rat:  four in the Chansons nouvelles series, another pair in the Second livre of 1557, and single one in a book issued by Attaingnant’s widow in 1553.  Is the text of D’un amy fainct je ne puis deffaire by François I?  Saint-Gelais? Text of  J’ay vue que j’estois serviteur  appears in Lotrain’s La fleur of 1542-3.  The text of O cruaulté logee en grant beaulté is by Marot:  Chanson XXIX.  Stylistically his works are homorhythymic in the manner of Parisian composers Sandrin, Certon, and Arcadelt.  Frank Dobbins, “Le Rat,” New Grove 2, XIV, 575"}