Henry Madin
Henry Madin (born October 7, 1698 in Verdun , † February 3, 1748 in Versailles ) was a French composer and conductor .
Life
Henry Madin received his musical education at the cathedral singing school of Verdun cathedral. At the age of 21 he was ordained a priest and at the same time responsible for training the boys' choir at the Saint Étienne cathedral in Meaux , where the important musician and priest Abbé Sébastien de Brossard worked before him . Between 1732 and 1730 he worked again in Verdun before he got a job in Tours .
After successfully performing some of his motets at the Concert Spirituel in Paris in 1732, in 1736 he became vice conductor of the “musique de la Chapelle du Roi”, alongside Charles-Hubert Gervais and André Campra . At the same time he held the position of conductor at the Cathedral of Rouen . In 1741 he became a canon at Saint-Quentin. Madin followed Campra's death in 1742 as the responsible instructor for the pages of the Chapelle royale .
His compositional work mainly includes sacred music, such as masses, cantatas, the Te Deum O filii et filiae and the motets that are essential in France ("Petits motets" and "Grands Motets"). Of these motets, the Diligam te Domune is particularly well known today.
Madin also left a music theoretical work on counterpoint : Traité du contrepoint simple ou du chant sur le livre (Paris, 1742).
The literary connoisseur, music writer and confidante of the king, Évrard Titon du Tillet (1677–1762) described Madin as one of the best motet composers of the 18th century.
literature
- Jean-Paul Montagnier: Madin, Henry. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 11 (Lesage - Menuhin). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7 , Sp. 783 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- Jean-Paul C. Montagnier: Henry Madin (1698–1748). Un musicien Lorrain au service de Louis XV with a foreword by Davitt Moroney , Langres, Éditions Dominique Guéniot, 2008.
- Jean-Paul C. Montagnier: The Polyphonic Mass in France, 1600-1780: The Evidence of the Printed Choirbooks, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Jean-Paul C. Montagnier: The War of The Austrian Succession and the Masses by Henry Madin (1741–1748) , Music & Letters , 100 (August 2019), pp. 391-419.
Web links
- Literature by and about Henry Madin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information on Henry Madin in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Sheet music and audio files by Madin, Henry in the International Music Score Library Project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Madin, Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1698 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Verdun |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1748 |
| Place of death | Versailles |