Noé Faignient

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Noé Faignient (* around 1537 possibly in Cambrai ; † around 1578 in Antwerp ) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance .

Live and act

It was not until 1992 that an Antwerp “certificaat” of February 17, 1576 was published, which speaks of Noé Faignient in the following way: “Noel Faeynient, sangmeester alhier, woonende by de Nyeuwe Borsse alhier, oudt omtrement XXXIX jaren” (thus 1576 about 39 years old), which gives the approximate year of birth. The composer was granted citizenship in Antwerp in 1561; This document speaks of "Noe Menestriers, son of Bastien, born at Cambrai, musician". The aforementioned certificate also confirms the statement made by Pierre François Sweerts (Franciscus Swertius) in the publication Athenae belgicae (Antwerp 1628) that Faignient worked as a music teacher in Antwerp: "Antverpiae aliquot annos iuventutem musicam docuit". Few other details are known about the composer's biography. Three children of the Faignient family were baptized in the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Antwerp in 1561, 1575 and 1577. In 1566 the collection of poems “Suite du Labeur en lesse” was published in the same city, which was a sonnet with an admonishing Contains content by the poet Guillaume de Poetou (around 1528–1567 / 68), which is addressed directly to Noé Faignient.

The Antwerp archival documents also provide indirect information about Faignient's death. The composer's fourth child was baptized on December 18, 1577 during the father's lifetime in Antwerp Cathedral, and in another document of December 20, 1578 his second wife Anna Oldenhoff is referred to as a widow; thus Faignient died between December 1577 and December 1578. An earlier statement (A. Smijers 1946) that Faignient served as the singing master of Duke Erich II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg from 1580 to 1581 , turns out to be incorrect.

meaning

In 1568 the widow of the publisher Jean de Laet published a collection of four- to six-part compositions by Faignient, which was dedicated to the Spanish merchant Gonzalo García. In the dedication, the composer calls these pieces “les Premiers fruitz de mon Jardinet” (the first fruits of my little garden); in them polyphonic and homophonic passages alternate. In the chansons of Noé Faignient it comes to the secular and spiritual love. Among these works, “L'Homme qui n'est point amoureux” is particularly well known. Faignient later gave the piece a Dutch text ("Musica aldersoetste konst"); This song was very popular well into the 17th century. The Flemish song “O Hemelsche vader” is particularly striking because of its shape, as it is divided into two parts, following the pattern of contemporary motets . The tribute motet "Insignis virtute" is dedicated to Count Peter Ernst von Mansfeld (around 1580–1626), who played an important role in Dutch history. There is another collection by Noé Faignient with three-part pieces, also published in 1568, of which the original has been lost. In the Swedish city of Linköping , however, there is a copy with the title "Chansons, madrigales et motets par Noé Faignient 1568". This collection contains the chanson "Las voulez vous", which is very close to the play of the same name by Orlando di Lasso . Other compositions in this collection are also close to di Lasso's oeuvre because of the art of pictorial and affective word expression, which Johann Gottfried Walther in his “Musical Lexicon” of 1732 may have prompted to call Faignient a “Simia Orlandi” (Orlando's monkey). In addition, Faignient's work is best known for the numerous printed collections that appeared between 1569 and around 1650, including arrangements for organ and lute .

Works

(all vocal music, in order of appearance)

  • "Chansons, madrigales et motetz à quatre, cincq & six parties, nouvellement composées", Antwerp 1568
  • "Chansons, madrigales et motets par Noé Faignient 1568" (Linköpinger copy)
  • 5 chansons in “Recueil des fleurs”, Löwen 1569
  • 2 Flemish songs in “Een duytsch Musyck Boeck”, Löwen 1572
  • 12 chansons in “La Fleur des chansons”, Leuven / Antwerp 1574
  • 4 chansons in “Premier Livre du meslange des pseaumes et cantiques”, [Geneva] 1577
  • 4 chansons in “Second Livre du meslange”, [Geneva] 1577
  • 2 madrigals in "Harmonia celeste", Antwerp 1583
  • 2 madrigals in “Musica divina di XIX. autori illustri ”, Antwerp 1583
  • 1 motet in “Sacrae cantiones”, Nuremberg 1585
  • 2 madrigals in “Musica transalpina”, London 1588
  • 1 motet in "Liber secundus gemmae musicalis", Nuremberg 1589
  • 1 Flemish song in "New lovely teutsche Liedlein", Nuremberg 1590
  • 1 chanson in “Cinquante Pseaumes de David”, Heidelberg 1597
  • 3 chansons in “Le Rossignol musical des chansons”, Antwerp 1597
  • 1 madrigal in “Nervi d'Orfeo”, Leiden 1605
  • 2 motets in "Hortulus musicalis", Munich 1609
  • 1 chanson in “Livre septieme des chansons vulgaires”, Antwerp 1613
  • 2 chansons in “Livre septieme des chansons vulgaires”, Amsterdam 1640

Literature (selection)

  • A. Smijers: Sea-stemmed muziek van de Illustre Lieve Vrouw Broederschap te 's-Hertogenbosch. In: Tijdschrift van de Vereiniging voor nederlandse muziekgeschiedenis No. 16, 1946, pages 4-9
  • F. Noske: The Linköping Faignient-Manuscript , in: Acta musicologica No. 36, 1964, pages 152-165
  • D. Godts: De chansons van Noé Faignient (1540–1598) , Magister artium 1980
  • F. Dobbins: Lassus - Borrower or Lender: The Chansons. In: Revue belge de musicologie No. 39–40, 1985/86, pages 101–157
  • G. Spiessens: Nieuwe biografische against Noé Faignient. In: Musica Antiqua No. 9, 1992, pages 15-17
  • C. Ballman: Versions vocales et instrumentales des chansons de Noé Faignient. In: Eugeen Schreurs / H. Vanhulst, Music Fragments and Manuscripts in the Low Countries, Löwen / Peet 1997, pages 365–376 (= Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation No. 2)

Web links

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  1. ↑ The Music in Past and Present (MGG), Person Part Volume 6, Bärenreiter and Metzler, Kassel and Basel 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1116-0
  2. ↑ Marc Honegger, Günther Massenkeil (ed.): The great lexicon of music. Volume 3: Elsbeth - Haitink. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1980, ISBN 3-451-18053-7 .
  3. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , edited by Stanley Sadie, 2nd Edition, Volume 8, McMillan, London 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3
personal data
SURNAME Faignient, Noé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH around 1537
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Cambrai
DATE OF DEATH around 1578
Place of death Antwerp