Illustrious Danguy

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The Illustre Danguy (French: L'illustre Danguy , German: the famous Danguy , also in the spelling Dangui , Dengui or Denguy ) (* 18th century ; † 18th century) was a virtuoso French hurdy-gurdy player who only spoke to us under this Name is known. Almost nothing is known about his life.

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The almost thousand-year-old hurdy-gurdy, first used as a church instrument, experienced a cultural decline in the 14th and 15th centuries against the background of the developing polyphony and was only played by beggars and farmers. In the 18th century it came back into fashion with the French nobility. The French nobility of that time idealized and imitated simple country life. "Stylized artistic shepherd music and instruments, above all the hurdy-gurdy and the bagpipes, were now played again in the highest social circles."

In addition to famous lay people like Marie Leczinska , the wife of Louis XV. , there were professional hurdy-gurdy players like Monsieur Ravet , François Bouïn , Charles Bâton and Jean-Baptiste Dupuits , but above all the illustren Danguy . These professional musicians, in particular the Illustrious Danguy , made hurdy-gurdy music in the courts again socially acceptable, or better yet, acceptable.

The Dangui ensemble of the hurdy-gurdy player Tobie Miller has named itself after this legendary virtuoso.

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The Illustrious Dangui in Literature

  • Paul Fustier (Editor): L'illustre Danguy: Pièces pour la vielle: manuscrites & imprimées. Published by Société de musicologie de Languedoc, 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Tobie Miller: La Belle vielleuse - virtuoso music of the 18th century for hurdy-gurdy. In: Music in the Muri Monastery Church (Sunday, June 7, 2020).
  2. ^ A b c Paul Fustier (editor): L'illustre Danguy.
  3. ↑ a b c d Illustrious Danguy. In: SWR2 About the hurdy-gurdy player, recorder player and singer Tobie Miller .
  4. ^ A b section after: Tobie Miller: La Belle vielleuse - virtuoso music of the 18th century for hurdy-gurdy. In: Music in the Muri Monastery Church (Sunday, June 7, 2020).
  5. ^ Ensemble Danguy. In: Agency for Early Music.
personal data
SURNAME Illustrious Danguy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French hurdy-gurdy player
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 18th century