Little is known about his early life, but he was probably born west of Chartres, perhaps in the town of Brunelles, near to Nogent-le-Rotrou, making him one of the first of the Netherlandish composers who was actually French.
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The chapel there was disbanded in 1510, after which he evidently stayed in Italy; several documents connect him with churches in Faenza and Mantua, where he probably died in 1512 or shortly after.
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He sang at Notre-Dame de Chartres from 9 August 1483 until 1486, and subsequently held posts at St Peter's in Geneva (until 1492) and Laon (around 1497) before becoming choirmaster to the boys at Notre-Dame de Paris from 1498 to 1500, and choirmaster to Alfonso I d'Este at Ferrara from 1506, replacing the famous composer Jacob Obrecht who had died of the plague there the previous year.
Antoine Brumel (c.1460–c.1515), Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Antoine Watteau | Antoine de Caunes | Antoine Brumel | Antoine Walker | Antoine Lavoisier | Marc-Antoine Charpentier | Antoine-Louis Barye | Marc Antoine | Louis Antoine de Bougainville | Antoine, Duke of Lorraine | Antoine Bourdelle | Antoine | Jacques Antoine | Antoine Guichenot | Antoine Grumbach | François-Antoine Devaux | Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay | Charles Antoine Lemaire | Brumel | Antoine-Vincent Arnault | Antoine Predock | Antoine Louis Rouillé | Antoine Hamilton | Antoine Godeau | Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy | Antoine Claudet | Antoine Albeau | Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye | Paul-Antoine Léonard de Villefeix |
Many versions of the chanson were produced including those by Ockeghem, Josquin, Pipelare, Verbonnet, Obrecht, Pirson, Brumel and Agricola.
Tandernaken was an international hit in the period between about 1430 and the 1540s as settings, preserved in Dutch, Italian, German and English sources, are listed by Franco-Flemish (or Dutch), German and English composers such as Jacob Obrecht, Antoine Brumel, King Henry VIII, Alexander Agricola, Paul Hofhaimer, Petrus Alamire, Ludwig Senfl and Erasmus Lapicida.