Ban, Joan Albert
(†1644)
JOAN ALBERT BANBAN, JOAN ALBERTJOAN ALBERT BAN [* 1597 or 1598-† 1644] While MERSENNE was erecting his monumental treatises on music in Paris, Joan Albert Ban (Bannus, Bannius) was at work creating general principles for composition in Haarlem. When the two began a correspondence in 1638, their differences became a source of frustration for MERSENNE, who had found Ban's Dissertatio of 1637 trivial and outmoded. To prove his point, MERSENNE set up a competition between Ban and the French…