Jean Cousin (composer)
Jean Escatefer dit cousin (* around 1425, † after 1474) was a French or Franco-Flemish composer and singer.
Life
Jean Cousin served from 1446 to 1448 together with Johannes Ockeghem and eleven other singers in the chapel of Duke Charles I of Bourbon in Moulins .
Between 1448 and 1461 he found employment in the French court orchestra, perhaps as early as 1452, when Ockeghem was a servant of the French king at that time. It was not until 1461, however, that cousin was recorded there as a member of the court orchestra: he was given a dress on the occasion of the funeral service for Charles VII .
In order to enable Cousin to accept a third prebend , King Ludwig XI asked . to allow the Pope, Ockeghem, cousin, and other members of the royal chapel to own three benefits. The Pope approved this with his bull of December 5, 1463.
Cousin took part in the election meetings of the city of Tours from 1463-64 .
Cousin served the French king as a singer and priest until at least 1474, and in 1473 he had reached third place in the hierarchy of the court orchestra. It is not possible to determine when this office relationship was terminated due to the loss of the court orchestra's bills for the period after 1474.
Only the Missa tubae from Cousin has survived, which derives its name from trumpet motifs in the tenor and contratenor . A Missa Nigra sum mentioned by Johannes Tinctoris in 1473 seems lost.
expenditure
- Missa tubae. In: Rudolf Flotzinger (Hrsg.): Trienter Codices, selection 7 (= monuments of musical art in Austria . Volume 120). Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, Graz 1970, pp. 3–16 ( DNB 1002032466 ; table of contents ).
literature
- Rudolf Flotzinger : Cousin, Jean. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 4 (Camarella - Couture). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1114-4 , Sp. 1773 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- Leeman L. Perkins: Musical Patronage at the Royal Court of France under Charles VII and Louis XI (1422-83). In: Journal of the American Musicological Society Vol. 37, No. 3 (Autumn, 1984), pp. 507-566 ( JSTOR 831337 ).
- Rob C. Wegman: Cousin, Jean Escatefer dit .. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Web links
- Sheet music in the public domain by Jean Cousin in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
- Entry on Jean Cousin at kf-a.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Agostino Magro: "Premierement ma Baronnie de Chasteauneuf": Jean de Ockeghem, Treasurer of St Martin's in Tours . In: Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music . tape 18 , ISSN 0261-1279 , p. 165-258 , JSTOR : 853827 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cousin, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cousin, Jean Escatefer dit (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French or Franco-Flemish composer and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1425 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1474 |