Jean Lecocq

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Jean Lecocq (also Joannes Gallus ; active between 1540 and 1560) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance .

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The identity of the composer Jean Lecocq alias Joannes Gallus has long been equated with that of a composer by the name of Maistre Jhan , because the Venetian publisher Gerolamo Scotto made this equation on the title page of a motet collection published in 1543 . This was most likely mistakenly: Maistre Jhan died in October 1538 and the equation does not appear in any other source. The publisher Tielman Susato uses the name versions Gallus (Latin) and Lecocq (French) alternately for the same composer in his print of the 1543 chansons , but never uses the name Maistre Jhan.

Almost nothing is known about the life of Jean Lecocq; neither about the birth nor about his death date and place have been determined. What is certain is that he was in the service of Duke Ercole II of Ferrara in the 1540s . In addition, the author Lodovico Guicciardini reports on a “Gian le Coick” as a contemporary musical master, by whom he probably meant Johannes de Cockh, who worked in the imperial chapel in Vienna from 1564 at the latest until his death in the mid-1570s . This singer is perhaps identical to Joannes Gallus, who is represented with various music prints from Germany and the Netherlands between 1542 and 1555.

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The totality of the works attributed to Jean Lecocq / Joannes Gallus is not very large: 9 motets and 22 chansons. The chansons are not as light and fluid in their writing as the comparable works by Claudin de Sermisy or Clément Janequin . For some, the way counterpoint is used seems very conservative. Five of the chansons are canonical ; Among these, the five-part piece “Sy des haulx cieulx” is particularly noteworthy because it is a unison mirror canon.

Works

  • Motets
    • “Angelus Domini descendit” for four voices, 1538
    • “Domine da nobis auxilium” for four voices, 1542
    • “Ecce plenus” for four votes, 1546
    • “Exaltare tui Domine” for five votes, 1554
    • “Laudemus omnes” for four voices, 1547
    • “Musica Dei donum optimi” with five voices, 1554
    • "Quousque Domine" for five votes, 1553
    • “Suscipe verbum virgo Maria” for five voices, 1555
    • “Valde honorandus est” to five votes, 1546
  • Chansons
    • "Au glay berg icronette" to four voices, 1554 (attributed to Gallus)
    • "Belle vostre amie est venu" for four voices, 1554 (attributed to Lecocq)
    • "Douleur et pleurs" for four voices, 1554 (Lecocq)
    • "Deuil et ennuy" for five voices, 1545 (Lecocq)
    • "En espoir vis" for four voices, 1544 (Lecocq)
    • "Hélas amours du vient" for four voices, 1544 (Lecocq)
    • "Humble et leal vers madame" for four voices, 1554 (Gallus)
    • "Je ne desire" for four voices, 1544 (Gallus)
    • "Las me fault il tant" for four voices, 1544 (Lecocq)
    • "Le bergier et la bergiere" for five votes, 1543 (Gallus)
    • "Nostre vicaire ung jour" to four voices, 1544 (Lecocq)
    • "Or suis je bien au pire" with six voices, 1550 (Gallus / Lecocq)
    • "Par lazy d'argent" to five voices, 1544 (Gallus)
    • "Pour la dame" for five voices, 1550 (Gallus)
    • "Pour une seulle" for four voices, 1544 (Gallus)
    • "Puis que fortune" for four voices, 1544 (Lecocq)
    • "Sans avoir aultre" for five voices, 1543 (Gallus)
    • "Si alcunement désirez" for four voices, 1544 (Lecocq)
    • "Sy des haulx cieulx" for five voices, 1545 (Lecocq)
    • "Si par souffrir" for five voices, 1545 (Lecocq)
    • "Si tu voulois accorder" for four voices, 1544 (Lecocq)
    • "Si variable oncques" for four voices, 1544 (Lecocq)

literature

  • Franz Xaver Haberl: The Roman »Schola cantorum« and the papal band singers up to the middle of the 16th century. In: Vierteljahresschrift für Musikwissenschaft No. 3, 1887, pages 187–296, especially 258
  • A. Smijers: The imperial court music band from 1543–1619. In: Studien zur Musikwissenschaft No. 7, 1920, pages 102–142, especially page 128, published separately Vienna 1922
  • R. Casadio: La cappella musicale della cattedrale di Ravenna nel secolo XVI. In: Note d'archivio per la storia musicale No. 16, 1939, pages 136-185, 226-237, 258-273, especially page 138
  • U. Meissner: The Antwerp music printer Tylman Susato , Berlin 1967

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , edited by Stanley Sadie, 2nd Edition, Volume 9, McMillan Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3
  2. ↑ Marc Honegger, Günther Massenkeil (ed.): The great lexicon of music. Volume 5: Köth - Mystical Chord. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1981, ISBN 3-451-18055-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Lecocq, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallus, Joannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century