Of his early life, almost nothing is known. Probably he was born in Cremona, and he appears in the records of Cividale Cathedral, near Udine, as a cleric. He spent time in Rome in the first decade of the 16th century, but the exact years are not known; he wrote music for a wedding of the niece of Pope Julius II in 1508. From 1512 to 1515 he was employed as maestro de cappella of Cividale Cathedral, and shortly afterwards moved to Aquileia, where he may have died.
Most of his music is in the light secular form of the frottola, an ancestor of the madrigal. 35 of his frottola survive, along with two motets and a lauda. Stylistically they are typical of the time: homophonic texture predominates, with brief imitative passages at phrase beginnings; the melodies are memorable and easily singable. One of his frottola was evidently the favorite song of Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI, according to a manuscript source of the time.
Born in Paris, Charles was the eldest surviving son of Charles VI of France and Isabeau de Bavière.
Of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, he was one of the most significant composers of motets and chansons, and one of the first musicians to bring the light Italianate Renaissance style to France.
Cristóbal de Morales (c.1500October 7, 1553) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance.