Jean Courtois

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Jean Courtois (active 1530 to 1545; † before 1567) was a Franco-Flemish composer and conductor of the Renaissance .

Live and act

There is no information about most of the stages in the life of Jean Courtois; he appears mainly through the compositions he left behind. We only know that he initially worked as a petit vicaire in Cambrai from 1516 to 1517 and from 1534 to 1535 . In 1540 he was bandmaster to the Bishop of Cambrai, Robert de Croy. On January 20, 1540, Emperor Charles V paid a visit to Cambrai on his way to Ghent , and on this occasion 34 singers from the cathedral performed the motet “Venite populi terrae” by Jean Courtois, which was specially composed for it, in the episcopal palace . Nothing is known about his further life. The Italian writer Lodovico Guicciardini listed him among the deceased composers in his historical publication Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi , published in Antwerp in 1567 , together with Josquin , Jacob Obrecht , Adrian Willaert and Nicolas Gombert .

meaning

The compositions by Jean Courtois mostly adhere to the musical conventions of his time. His pieces show a precise text declamation , in the masses and motets a dense imitation and in the chansons a clear phrasing . The style of the five- and six-part chansons goes back to Josquin, with extensive imitation, overlapping cadences and canon techniques without precise repetitions, while the four-part chansons are more based on the more homophonic Parisian style. Courtois was held in high regard by his contemporaries; he was mentioned in the work Compendium musices (Nuremberg 1552) by the music theorist Adrianus Petit Coclico . In 1687 his name appears in a catalog of musical authors by Mathias Heinrich Schacht.

Works

  • measure up
    • Missa “Dominus quis habitabit” with four voices
    • Missa “Emendenus” with four voices
    • Missa “Hoc in templo” with four voices
    • Missa “Urbs beata” with four voices
  • Motets
    • “Cantate domino canticum novum” with five voices
    • “Deduc me domine” to four voices
    • “Domine quis habitavit” to four votes
    • “Hic sancti quorum” to four votes
    • “Hoc largire pater” to four voices
    • “Inviolata integra et casta” with four voices
    • “O crux ave sanctissima” to four voices
    • “O pastor aeterne” to four votes
    • “Quid gloriaris” to four votes
    • “Peccata mea” with six voices
    • “Peccavi super numerum” with six voices
    • “Rogate quae ad pacem” with five votes
    • “Veni domine et noli tardare” with four voices
    • “Venite populi terrae” with four voices
  • Chansons
    • “Celluy qui veult” to four voices
    • “C'est a jamais a qui” to four voices
    • “Du congié” to five votes
    • “Elle veult donc” to four votes
    • “En ce gracieulx” to five votes
    • “Faisons ung coup” with four votes
    • “Je ne suis pas de gens” to four votes
    • “Ma passion je prens” with four voices
    • “Par ton départ” with four voices
    • “Par ung matin” to four votes
    • “Si par souffrir” to four votes
    • “Tousjours leal” to six votes
    • “Tousjours plaisiers” to six votes
    • “Tout le confort” to six votes
    • “Trois fillettes” to four voices
    • “Ung jour au bois” to four voices
    • “Vire vire Jean Jennette” with four votes
    • 1 more chanson, lost
    • 3 more chansons with four, five and six voices
    • 2 more chansons with four voices

Literature (selection)

  • E. vander Straeten: La musique aux Pays-Bas avant le XIXe siècle , 8 volumes, Brussels 1867 and others, Reprint New York 1969, volume 1, page 43 and following, volume 2, page 61
  • AW Ambros: History of Music , Volume 3, Leipzig 1868, page 972
  • N. Bridgman: La paticipation musicale à l'entrée de Charles Quint à Cambrai, on January 20, 1540. In: Fêtes et cérémonies au temps de Charles Quint; Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent and Liège 1957, pages 235-255
  • D. Crawford: Sixteenth Century Choirbooks in the Archivio Capitolare at Casale Monferrato , Rome 1975

Web links

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  1. ↑ The music in past and present (MGG), person part Volume 4, Bärenreiter and Metzler, Kassel and Basel 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1114-4
  2. ↑ Marc Honegger, Günther Massenkeil (ed.): The great lexicon of music. Volume 2: C - Elmendorff. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1979, ISBN 3-451-18052-9 .
  3. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , edited by Stanley Sadie, 2nd Edition, Volume 6, McMillan, London 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3
personal data
SURNAME Courtois, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Courtoys, Jean; Cortois, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Flemish composer and bandmaster of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH before 1530
DATE OF DEATH before 1567