Biography
Wipo of Burgundy, also known as Wippo or Wigbert, was an eleventh-century priest, poet and historian attached to the courts of Conrad II and Henry III. Born before 1000 in the Burgundian-Alemannic region and probably dead around 1047–50, he is best documented as the author of the Gesta Chuonradi II, the Proverbia and the Tetralogus.
His place in music history rests almost entirely on the Easter sequence Victimae paschali laudes. A medieval Einsiedeln manuscript explicitly attributes the sequence to “Wippo,” but the witness is later than Wipo’s lifetime, so modern scholarship treats the authorship as plausible rather than certain. The sequence became one of medieval Europe’s most widely transmitted Easter chants and remains extensively recorded; modern releases by Joglaresa, the Benedictines of Mary and the Dresdner Kreuzchor all credit it to Wipo.
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