Daniel Daniélis

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Daniel Daniélis (baptized May 1, 1635 in Visé ; † September 17, 1696 in Vannes ) was a Walloon bandmaster and composer of the Baroque era from the Principality of Liège.

Live and act

Daniel Daniélis was organist at the Lambertus Cathedral in Liège from December 11, 1657 , where he also worked as a singer. In 1658 Duke Gustav Adolf von Mecklenburg-Güstrow hired him as a bassist and appointed him Kapellmeister in February 1661, an office he held until 1681 with one break.

Daniélis in Güstrow

Augustin Pfleger (1635–1686), who was accepted as Vice-Kapellmeister in 1662, could not get along with Danielis, "who was a quarrel".
Several musicians also complained to the duke. “Our German musicians, who were supposed to put up with the management of a foreigner, to whom they could not admit musical superiority, but who, as unfortunately was often the case in Germany, enjoyed an advantage precisely because he was a foreigner, came soon enough in an argument with Danielis. [The harpsichordist and organist] Schop complained in 1662 that Danielis had been rude to him during a musical performance. There was a trial. Schop said that he had learned nothing from the conductor, who rather lent him some notes, and had offered him a ducat for the month of piano lessons. The argument took place in the organ choir in the church. Danielis denied this and said that Schop's compositions were children's antics, stolen from his and worthless, etc. Daniélis spoke French; Schop demanded 'he should speak Teutsch'; Danielis then grabbed the sword and asked the organist. The harmony was established, but it didn't last long, because Danielis continued to behave cockily, and our German musicians were by no means inclined to particularly respect Danielis as their superior. "

The general circumstances in Güstrow must not have been good, the salaries were only paid irregularly and so even the bandmaster complained about the "bad table" and said, "He could also see from this that the Duke did not care about him". Around 1674 Daniélis temporarily disappeared from Güstrow, but returned in 1678 and tried to rebuild the court orchestra, which only consisted of seven musicians.

Time in France

At Easter 1681 Daniélis left Güstrow for good and went to France. There the application for the position of Kapellmeister was unsuccessful at the Chapelle Royale in Versailles , succeeding Henri Dumont , who came from his closer home , and Pierre Roberts . From January 1684 until his death in 1696, he worked as Kapellmeister of Vannes Cathedral .

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Daniélis only composed in the then common Italian style, which was cultivated in Central Europe. Only 72 one- to four-part motets ( petits motets ) of his varied oeuvre have survived , everything else, including masses, songs and ballets and his two stage works have been lost. The motets that still exist, which combine Italian and French tastes, are considered to have influenced André Campra and François Couperin .

literature

  • Guy Bourligeux: Le mystérieux Daniel Daniélis (1635-1696). Article in: Recherches sur la Musique française classique. Vannes 1964.
  • Guy Bourligeux: Un Livre de musique de la cathédrale de Vannes à la bibliothèque du Conservatoire de Paris. Article in: Bulletin de la Société polymatique du Morbihan , 1966.
  • Guy Bourligeux, SL:  Daniélis, Daniel. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 5 (Covell - Dzurov). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1115-2 , Sp. 373–374 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Catherine Cessac : Catalog thématique des œuvres de Daniel Daniélis. 2003, ISBN 978-2-271-06130-0

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Clemens Meyer : History of the Güstrower Hofkapelle: Presentation of the musical conditions at the Güstrower Fürstenhofe in the 16th and 17th centuries. In: Year books of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Volume 83 (1919), pp. 1-46 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Daniélis, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Walloon Kapellmeister and composer from the Principality of Liège
DATE OF BIRTH baptized May 1, 1635
PLACE OF BIRTH Visé
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1696
Place of death Vannes