Jacques Cordier dit Bocan

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Jacques Cordier called Bocan (* around 1580 in Abbeville ; † 1653 ) was a French dancer , dance teacher and violinist .

Although he was hunchbacked and not conforming to the ideal of beauty, he developed from a dancer to an extraordinary choreographer . He began his career in England around 1610 and came to some prominence during the reign of Charles I. He liked to play the violin and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France , had Bocan as a dance teacher. England's political turmoil prompted Bocan to return to Paris. The five queens he taught dancing included Anna of Austria , wife of Louis XIII. , Élisabeth de Bourbon , wife of Philip IV , Constanze of Austria , wife of Sigismund III. Wasa and Anna Katharina von Brandenburg , wife of Christian IV. Radegonde de Chédeville came from a family of musicians, whom he married in 1621. With all his skills on the violin and Rebec , he was unable to read music and could not put his pieces on paper himself.

In 1646 he was in the service of Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans , known as the Grande Mademoiselle , and earned 600 livres a year, apparently until 1650. Even at an advanced age, he demonstrated unusual dances. In his day he not only excelled at dancing, he also played the violin perfectly, as Mersennes Harmonie universelle noted in 1636 . He also stated that Cordier was the originator of the La Bocanne dance .

The Musique du roi belonged Cordier for documents in 1646 and 1651 as a full chamber Geiger ( violin ordinaire du Cabinet du roy on). Yet he had an aversion to the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy , which seemed too old to him. His nickname probably comes from an area in Picardy promised to him by the Duke of Montpensier . That Bocan was not his real name only became apparent after the discovery of his grave near Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois , which was repaired in 1843.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eugénia Roucher: Entre le bel estre et le paroistre: la danse au temps de Louis XIII. , in: Jean Duron (Ed.): Regards sur la musique au temps de Louis XIII. , Wavre 2007, p. 91
  2. ^ A b c François-Joseph Fétis : Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique , Volume 2, 2nd edition Paris 1875, reprint Brussels 1963, p. 359
  3. ↑ Arthur Pougin: Le Violon. Les Violonistes et la Musique de Violon du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle , Paris 1924, p. 147
  4. ↑ Wendy Hilton: A Dance for Kings: The 17th-Century French "Courante". Its Character, Step-Patterns, Metric and Proportional Foundations , Early Music, Vol. 5, No. 2 (April 1977), p. 163
  5. ↑ Jérôme de La Gorce: Jean-Baptiste Lully , Librairie Arthème Fayard, [Paris] 2002, p. 42 f.
  6. ^ Barbara Ravelhofer: The Early Stuart Masque. Dance, Costume, and Music , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, p. 61.
personal data
SURNAME Bocan, Jacques Cordier dit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bocan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French dancer and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH Abbeville
DATE OF DEATH 1653