Arnoul Greban

Arnoul Gréban (* 15th century in Le Mans ; † 1485 in Florence ) was a French author, theologian, singer, organist and dramaturge.

life and work

Gréban was a theologian at the Sorbonne and from 1440 to 1453 organist at the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral . From 1455 to 1473 he was in the service of Charles IV (Maine) , then in Florence of Lorenzo il Magnifico . Gréban was the author of an important mystery play , a genre in which he was preceded by Eustache Marcadé and followed by his son-in-law Jean Michel . His passion play Mystère de la Passion of 35,000 verses for 224 actors, commissioned by René I (Anjou) , the older brother of Charles IV, was first performed in 1556 and lasted until 1507.

Works

Editions of the Passion Play

• Le mystère de la Passion d'Arnoul Greban , ed. by Gaston Paris and Gaston Raynaud , Paris, Vieweg, 1878.
• Le mystère de la Passion d'Arnoul Gréban , critical ed. by Omer Jodogne , 2 vols., Brussels, Académie royale de Belgique, 1965–1983.
• The "Mystère de la Passion" de Troyes. Mistere de la Passion nostre Seigneur, Troyes, XVe siècle , critical ed. by Jean-Claude Bibolet, 2 vols., Geneva, Droz, 1987.
  • (New French) Le Mystère de la passion de notre sauveur Jésus-Christ , translated and ed. by Micheline de Combarieu du Grès and Jean Subrenat, Paris, Gallimard, 1987.
  • (German) The Passion. The Misterienspiel , German by Wilhelm Schmidtbonn , Berlin, Fleischel, 1919.

The game of Acts

• Mystère des Actes des Apôtres (première et deuxième journée) , critical ed. by Ildiko Seres, Thèse, Paris 4, 2005 (12,000 of a total of 60,000 verses; co-author was his brother Simon Gréban).

literature

• Darwin Smith (* 1951), Arnoul Gréban. Clerc, chanteur et pedagogue entre la France et l'Italie au XVe siècle , Thèse, Paris 1, 2010.

Web links

• Literature by and about Arnoul Gréban in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://www.arlima.net/ad/arnoul_greban.html (list of publications and literature)