Jan van Turnhout

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Jan van Turnhout (* around 1545 possibly in Brussels , † after 1618 in Brussels) was a Franco-Flemish composer and conductor of the late Renaissance .

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No information has been passed on about the family of origin or about Jan van Turnhout's apprenticeship. He may have been the younger brother of Gérard de Turnhout . The first documented information is his appointment as Kapellmeister of the collegiate church Saint-Rombaut in Mechelen on August 9th, 1577, here he was described as a native of Brussels. However, he was dismissed again in 1580 because of complaints about his administration, and left this position that year because of religious unrest in Brussels. The governor of the Spanish Netherlands in Brussels, Alessandro Farnese , entrusted him with the management of the royal chapel in Brussels in 1586. In the following year he recommended to the Spanish King Philip II that Philippe Rogier should take over the office of court orchestra in Madrid . Jan van Turnhout retained the post of court conductor in Brussels after Farnese's death (1592) under the subsequent governors. In 1594 he was paid 50 livres for a mass that he had composed in honor of Archduke Ernst's entry into Antwerp . In the same year and 1596 he raised funds for the education of six choirboys , for which he was responsible. In 1603 Pedro Ruimonte (1565-1625) took over his office temporarily. For the funeral services after the death of Margaret of Austria in December 1611, he shared the Kapellmeister activities with Géry de Ghersem (around 1574-1630), a pupil of Philippe Rogier. In Archduke Albrecht's books , the composer is referred to as deceased as early as 1614; However, his name was last recorded in the name of the chapel in 1618.

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Jan van Turnhout was an outstanding musical personality in the Spanish Netherlands for many years; however, not very many of his compositions have survived. With his lifetime and his musical style, he belongs to the fifth generation of Franco-Flemish music.

Works

  • Dutch song “Ghy meiskens die van den comenschap sijt” with four voices, in the Een duytsch Musyck Boeck collection , Leuven / Antwerp 1572
  • Collection “Il primo libro de madrigali a sei voci” with six voices, Antwerp 1589, dedicated to Alessandro Farnese
  • Madrigal “Vorria parlare e dire” with six parts, in the Melodia olympica collection , Antwerp 1591
  • Mass for eight voices, lost
  • Collection “Sacrarum cantionum, liber primus” with five to eight voices, Douai 1594
  • Madrigal “In saevo mari” with six parts, in the Hortus musicalis collection , Munich 1609

Literature (selection)

  • P. Bergmans: Jan de Turnhout , in: Biographie Nationale de Belgique , Volume 25, Brussels 1930, Column 840-845
  • G. van Doorslaer: Jan van Turnhout, compositeur, maître de chapelle à Malines et à Bruxelles , in: Musica sacra (Bruges) No. 42, 1935, pages 218–249
  • G. van Doorslaer: Notes sur la Chapelle Musicale de l'église Saint-Gommaire à Lierre , in: Musica sacra (Bruges) No. 30, 1937, pages 35-64
  • G. Spiessens: Family bands van de componisten Geert en Jan van Turnhout , in: Musica antiqua No. 4, 1987, pages 58-59
  • Sandrine Thieffry: La Chapelle royale de Bruxelles sous Pierre du Hot et Jean de Turnhout , in: Sixième congrès de l'association des cercles francophones d'histoire et d'archéologie de Belgique, published by PJ Foulon, Brussels 2001, pages 1011-1030
  • Sandrine Thieffry: Jan de Turnhout, compositeur et maître de chapelle à la cour de Bruxelles (ca 1550–1614) , in: Revue belge de musicologie No. 48, 2004, pages 23–43

Web links

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  1. ↑ The Music in Past and Present (MGG), Person Part Volume 16, Bärenreiter and Metzler, Kassel and Basel 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5
  2. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , edited by Stanley Sadie, 2nd Edition, Volume 25, McMillan Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3
personal data
SURNAME Turnhout, Jan van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turnhout, Jean de; Turnhout, Jan Jacob van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Flemish composer and bandmaster of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH around 1545
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Brussels
DATE OF DEATH after 1618
Place of death Brussels