Guillaume Dumanoir

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Guillaume Dumanoir (born November 16, 1615 in Paris ; † May 18, 1697 ibid) was a French violinist, dance master and composer of the Baroque.

Life

Guillaume Dumanoir came from a French violinist family. In 1636 he was dance master at the royal court in The Hague. He then became a member of the Saint-Julien-des-Ménestriers brotherhood and violinist in the Chambre du Roi . In January 1639 he became a member of the grande-bande , the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy , between 1645 and 1656 he was also a member of the Petite Écurie du roi . He was on stage both as a dancer and as a violinist in the Opéra-ballets of Jean-Baptiste Lully , although Dumanoir was considered one of Lully's adversaries. In 1654 he sold his office at the Grande-bande , but from 1655 he became a 25 member of the king, i.e. H. reinstated as head of the grande gang .

In 1657 Dumanoir took over the leadership of the brotherhood of Saint-Julien-des-Ménestriers , a guild in which dance masters, violinists and all kinds of instrument players have traditionally come together since 1331. The leaders of the guild were known as roi des violons . When in 1661 the king allowed several dance masters to set up their own Académie Royale de Danse , which was independent of the Ménestriers , after several years of dispute Dumanoir submitted a 120-page text in 1663 that compared the inseparability of music and dance with marriage. In the year Dumanoir died, the office of roi des violons was abolished.

Works

Contained in various manuscripts, some have been lost

  • 3 Branles, a 3
  • Branle et courante, a 4
  • Allemande et Sarabande, a 4, Charivari, a 5
  • 4 instrumental suites, a 5, including the "Suite du Ballet de Stockholm"

font

  • Le mariage de la musique et de la dance: contenant la réponce au livre des treize prétendus académistes, touchant ces deux arts . Paris 1664

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1861)
  2. ↑ Dumanoir's curriculum vitae on Musicologie.org
  3. ↑ MGG , 2nd edition, Vol. 5, p. 1576
personal data
SURNAME Dumanoir, Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French composer, dance master and violinist
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1615
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1697
Place of death Paris