By the middle of the 15th century, composers and singers from the Low Countries and adjacent areas began to spread across Europe, especially into Italy, where they were employed by the papal chapel and the aristocratic patrons of the arts (such as the Medici, the Este, and the Sforza families).
Do polovice 15. storočia, sa skladatelia a speváci z Porýnia a priľahlých oblastí začali sťahovať najmä do Talianska, kde boli zamestnávaní pápežskou kaplnkou a aristokratickými mecenášmi, ako napríklad rodinou Medici, Est, Sforza.