Gheerkin de Hondt

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Gheerkin de Hondt (* around 1490, † after 1547) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance .

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No information has been passed on about the origin, the early period or the training of Gheerkin de Hondt. His first verifiable activity took place at the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft , where Gheerkin was singing master from August 1, 1530 to February 1532. From 1532 to 1539 he carried out the same activity at the Church of St. Jacob in Bruges ; there he was also a member of the Sacrament Guild. In September 1539 Gheerkin was recruited as a singing master by the Marienbruderschaft ( Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap ) in 's-Hertogenbosch ; there he began his service on December 31, 1539. This was a community in the tradition of the Roman temple brotherhoods that employed poets and composers of their own for their rites and chants. In the same capacity as singing master, he also worked at the local monastery. In 1541 and 1542, the composer made trips to Amsterdam and Leiden , among other places , to recruit new singers. In 1547 it was alleged that he and his wife had neglected the choirboys living in their house, whereupon he was released. He left 's-Hertogenbosch on October 2, 1547 and moved north to the Frisian part of the Netherlands with one of these choirboys. There his track is lost.

meaning

While it is still relatively easy to assign Gheerkin's sacred works to the person of the composer, this is problematic with secular works, because several pieces have come down to us under different author names. In the chansons he uses, albeit cautiously, special musical means such as homophonic text declamation to support the text expression; There are no special harmonic effects. In his mass “Panis quem ego dabo” he uses the motet of the same name by Lupus Hellinck , which Jacobus Clemens non Papa , Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Hellinck himself used as the basis for mass compositions. In his masses as well as in his other works, Gheerkin shows great skills in dealing with contrapuntal technique as well as security and skill in the invention and implementation of musical ideas.

Works

  • measure up
    • Missa “Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel” with four voices
    • Missa “Ceciliam cantate pii” with five voices
    • Missa “In te Domine spreavi” with five voices
    • Missa “Panis quem ego dabo” with four voices
    • Missa “Vidi Jerusalem” with four voices
  • Motets
    • “Benedicite Dominus” to four votes
    • “Inclina Domine aurem tuam” to four votes
    • “Jubilate Deo omnis terra” with four votes
    • “Vox dicentis clama” with four votes
  • Chansons (all to four voices)
    • "A vous me rens"
    • "Contre raison"
    • "Dung parfond cueur"
    • "Helas malheur"
    • "Het was my wel te vooren gheseyt"
    • "Je me reprens de vous avoir aymee"
    • "Langueur d'amour"
    • "Mon petit cueur"
    • "Oncques ne sceu avoir"

Literature (selection)

  • Albert Smijers: De Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap te 's-Hertogenbosch. VIII Rekeningen van Sint Jan 1535 dead Sint Jan 1541 , in: Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor nederlandse muziekgeschiedenis , Vol. 17 (1955), pp. 195-230.
  • H. van Nieuwkoop: Introduction to Gheerkin de Hondt: Missa Panis quem ego dabo , without location information 1975 (= Exempla Musica Neerlandica , vol. 9).
  • Maarten Albert Vente: Documents concerned de muziek in de Oude en Nieuwe Kerk te Delft (1434–1655) , in: Bouwstenen voor een geschiedenis der toonkunst in de Nederlanden , Vol. 3. Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, Amsterdam 1980, ISBN 90-6375 -017-X , pp. 86-98.
  • Véronique Roelvink: Gheerkin de Hondt. A singer-composer in the sixteenth-century Low Countries . Donaas Projecten, Utrecht 2015, ISBN 978-90-823768-0-7 (dissertation at the University of Leiden 2015).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Music in Past and Present (MGG), Person Part Volume 7, Bärenreiter and Metzler, Kassel and Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1117-9
  2. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , edited by Stanley Sadie, 2nd Edition, Volume 9, McMillan, London 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3
personal data
SURNAME Gheerkin de Hondt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gheerken; Gheraert; Gerit; Gerryt de Hondt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH around 1490
PLACE OF BIRTH Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH after 1547
Place of death Netherlands