Music year 1508

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Music year 1508
Old Pommer
Old Pommer

The pommer , also known as the bombarde, is a woodwind instrument with a double reed and a conical bore.

Tenor pommer
Tenor pommer

The pomeranian - here two illustrations from the Syntagma musicum by Michael Praetorius - developed from the shawm at the beginning of the 15th century and was played in both art and folk music during the Renaissance.

Events

  • May 23 : The chapter in Condé informs the court of the Burgundian regent Margaret of Austria that Josquin Desprez is in good health after learning that Josquin's predecessor as provost, Pierre Duwez, died on May 20; this mix-up shows that Josquin Desprez is hardly known at the Burgundian court.
  • July 19 : Claudin de Sermisy can be documented for the first time as a singer at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris . On this day he will be the singer at the Chapelle Royale of King Ludwig XII. called. He obviously left his previous position in late autumn 1508, when King Ludwig, Queen Anne de Bretagne and the Duke of Bourbon withdrew the best singers for their private entourage.
  • August 14th : At the request of the Rector of the Imperial Chapel, Georg Slatkonia , the cathedral chapter of the Konstanz Cathedral decides to commission Heinrich Isaac with the composition of the Mass propria for the main festivals. Isaac accepts the commission and largely completes it by May 1509.
  • August 21 : Sixt Dietrich , who had been a choirboy at the cathedral choir in Konstanz (Kostnitz) since 1504 at the latest , is released at his own request.
  • Bonifacius Amerbach enrolls at the artist faculty of the University of Basel and listens to music theory . He also takes music lessons from the organist Johannes Kotter . The result is a book of tablature , which as Codex Amerbach is one of the most extensive works of the early 16th century.
  • Eloy d'Amerval publishes his famous poem “ Le livre de la deablerie ” with Michel le Noir in Paris . King Ludwig XII. grants him express permission to publish the poem and pays him a special fee for the many years of his service. In this poem Eloy describes a dialogue between Satan and Lucifer in which they make shameful plans. This dialogue is regularly interrupted by the author with reflections on earthly and heavenly virtues as well as useful information on contemporary music practice. In addition to a list of musical instruments, Eloy also names which composers he considers the great composers of his time. The relevant excerpt from the poem reads:

"La sont les grans musiciens ... Comme Dompstable et du Fay ... Et plusieurs aultres gens de bien: Robinet de la Magdalaine, Binchoiz, Fedé, Jorges et Hayne, Le Rouge, Alixandre, Okeghem, Bunoiz, Basiron, Barbingham, Louyset, Mureau, Prioris, Jossequin, Brumel, Tintoris. "

- Eloy d'Amerval in his poem “Le livre de la deablerie”, 1508

Translated roughly:

"There are the great musicians ... Like John Dunstable and Guillaume Dufay ... And many other good people: Robinet de la Magdalaine, Gilles Binchois , Fedé, Jorges and Hayne van Ghizeghem , Guillaume Le Rouge , Alexander Agricola , Johannes Ockeghem , Antoine Busnoys , Philippe Basiron , Barbingham, Loyset Compère , Mureau, Johannes Prioris , Josquin Desprez , Antoine Brumel , Johannes Prioris . "

  • Antoine Brumel is the conductor at the court orchestra of the d'Este family in Ferrara . The lifelong contract includes an annual benefice of 100 ducats, an annual salary of the same amount, the use of a house in Ferrara and money for travel.
  • Hans Buchner is the cathedral organist at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Constance .
  • Marco Cara has been a lute virtuoso in the service of the Gonzaga family in Mantua since 1495 and until 1525 , who promoted artists of all kinds in his day.
  • Carpentras is the singer of the papal chapel in Rome . Apparently Carpentras is acquainted with the bishop of Avignon Giuliano della Rovere and went with him to Rome when the bishop became Pope Julius II .
  • After the death of Duke Philip the Handsome and the dissolution of his Grande Chapelle, Nicolas Champion entered the service of the successor chapel of his widow, Joanna of Castile . Johanna, nicknamed "the mad one", apparently cannot get over the death of her husband Philipp even after a long time, organizes a funeral procession around the castle every night for two years, with the coffin with the corpse of Philip being carried and with him the choir also has to sing requiems every night ; one of these singers is Nicolas Champion. Johanna's father, Archduke Ferdinand , finally ousted Johanna in August 1508 by locking her up in the fortress of Tordesillas . Her court chapel then dissolves and Nicolas Champion joins Charles V's chapel . Here he has a high rank and is paid very well, even if he does not reach the rank of Pierre de la Rue . Through his good contacts and his services at court, he acquired a number of benefits in the cities of Bruges , Namur , Lens , Lier, Oostvoorne , Valenciennes , Geervliet and Brielle from 1508 to around 1520 .
  • Josquin Desprez has been provost at his former place of work in Condé-sur-l'Escaut since 1504 . He is referred to as monsieur le prevost messire Josse des pres . The position is attractive for the former music director not only for its local property ownership, but even more because of the good staffing the church and the quality of the local music exercise, second only to the cathedral in Cambrai and Saint-Vincent in Soignies exceeded becomes. The provost here (according to a list from 1523) holds secular power in the parish and is the superior of the dean , the treasurer, 25 canons, 18 chaplains, 16 vicars and six choirboys, plus some priests without benefices; A choir of vicars and choirboys usually takes part in the lavishly designed church services, so that up to 22 music-trained voices are available and up to six-part works can be performed. Josquin worked in this position for 17 years until the end of his life.
  • Antonius Divitis - like Nicolas Champion - entered the service of the successor chapel of his widow, Joanna of Castile , after the death of Duke Philip the Fair and the dissolution of his Grande Chapelle . Like many of his colleagues, Divitis remained in the service of the regent Johanna until the court orchestra was dissolved in August 1508. There is no information about his whereabouts for the next two years. In May 1510, however, he was named in the supplicary registers of the papal curia as a singer at the chapel of the French Queen Anne de Bretagne , where Jean Mouton , Claude de Sermisy and Jean Richafort were also employed at that time .
  • Pedro de Escobar is Magister Puerorum at the cathedral in Seville until his resignation 1514th
  • Antoine de Févin , whose father Pierre de Févin died in 1506, presumably lives in Paris and has a job at the French royal court or is at least associated with this institution. There is only one document for this, however, a letter from Asti in northern Italy, where King Ludwig XII. writes to France on April 18, 1507, that portraits of a Parisian painter and one of Févin's excellent chansons should be sent to him as soon as these have been completed, to be presented to the ladies in Italy.
  • Johannes Ghiselin , who left the farm of the d'Este family in Ferrara in 1505 after the outbreak of the plague, is a member of the Onze Lieve Vrouwe (Our Lady) brotherhood in Bergen op Zoom in Flanders . This shows a Brotherhood payroll dating back to 1507, with the amount paid out indicating membership for at least a year. The Brotherhood's payrolls for the years 1508-1510 have been lost, and his name no longer appears on the 1511 list. Since no other works by him have appeared since 1505, it can be concluded that Ghiselin died between 1507 and 1511.
  • Nicolas Gombert may already be a student of Josquin Desprez, the km located since 1504 in about 40 Condé-sur-l'Escaut as provost operates.
  • Paul Hofhaimer lives in Augsburg , the "secret capital" of Emperor Maximilian I , where he works as a freelancer under his favor.
  • Hans Kotter , who studied with Paul Hofhaimer from 1498 to 1500, was organist at the Saxon court in Torgau until 1508 .
  • Some state motets by Jean Mouton suggest that he was in the service of Queen Anne de Bretagne , wife of King Louis XII , before 1509 . of France (reign 1498–1515). More composers are gathered in her court orchestra than in King Ludwig's, besides Mouton, for example, Antonius Divitis, Jean Richafort and Claudin de Sermisy.
  • Marbrianus de Orto - like Nicolas Champion and Antonius Divitis - entered the service of the successor chapel of his widow, Joanna of Castile , after the death of Duke Philip the Fair and the dissolution of his Grande Chapelle . Here he worked as Kapellmeister until 1508. He left Spain and went to the court in Brussels , where Margaret of Austria was in charge of the underage Archduke Karl, who later became Emperor Charles V. Here de Orto initially helped with the reorganization of the court orchestra.
  • Johannes Prioris , who may have been a member of the French court orchestra since the end of the 1480s, is verifiably Kapellmeister ( maître de chapelle ) of the court orchestra from 1503 to 1512 .
  • Jean Richafort is maître du chant (choirmaster) at St. Romboud Church in Mechelen . In the archives of the chapter of this church there is also a note that during his tenure as Magister two brothers of his, Guillaume and François Richafort, were admitted to the choir.
  • Pierre de la Rue - like Nicolas Champion, Antonius Divitis and Marbrianus de Orto - entered the service of the successor chapel of his widow, Joanna of Castile , after the death of Duke Philip the Fair and the dissolution of his Grande Chapelle . After the departure of the former conductor Marbriano de Orto, Pierre moves up to his position and receives twice as high a salary as the other members of the court orchestra. After Johanna was ousted from power by her father Ferdinand in August 1508, the Castilian court orchestra dissolved, the Burgundian members were paid travel expenses for their journey home, and Pierre de la Rue left the country on August 19, 1508. After a speedy return to his home comes de la Rue in April 1509 again to the attention of Margaret of Austria, the interim governor in Burgundy and guardian of the future Emperor Charles V has become.
  • Claudin de Sermisy can be documented for the first time on July 19, 1508 as a singer at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris; On this day he will be the singer at the Chapelle Royale of King Ludwig XII. called. He obviously left his previous position in late autumn 1508, when King Ludwig, Queen Anne de Bretagne and the Duke of Bourbon withdrew the best singers for their private entourage.

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