Philippe Duc

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Philippe Duc (* around 1550 in Flanders ; † after 1586) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance .

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The date and place of birth of Philippe Duc could not yet be determined by music history research. No information has been passed on about his early days or his training. He spent most of his life in Italy, but it is not known when he got there. It is believed that he lived in Padua for at least some time because his first book of four-part madrigals in 1570 was dedicated to the Flemish students living here . In this publication he finds warm words for them and for the city of Padua. The composer apparently also had good connections with the House of Habsburg , because ten of his motets are included in the first four volumes of the anthology Novi thesauri musici , a collection published by Pietro Joanelli in 1568 and dedicated to Emperor Maximilian II . The records of the imperial chapel also note that Philippe Duc received a fee of 25 guilders in 1577 for the composition of two masses in honor of Emperor Maximilian . He dedicated his madrigal book from 1586 to Johann Jakob and Karl Kisl in Graz ; these were the sons of the treasurer of the Austrian Archduke Karl . In addition, the writings of some of his sacred works are among the manuscripts in Austrian archives. After 1586 the track of the composer is lost; when and where he died is still unknown today.

meaning

The sacred works of Philippe Duc, which have come down mainly in connection with the Habsburg court, are essentially based on the Franco-Flemish tradition of his time in the succession of Jacobus Clemens non Papa ; a more detailed investigation by musicology has yet to be done. His secular work, on the other hand, is relatively well known due to the three surviving individual prints. Here you will find those “light” elements that are typical for the student milieu; there is also a tendency towards parody . Such is the Bacchus - hymn contained "Sequamini et socij" which shows a mixture of different languages. Another example is the Serenata "L'aria s'oscura", which quotes street chants and creates a pseudo-dramatic effect through the rapid declamation of voices; here the closeness to the style of Alessandro Striggio the Elder and Orazio Vecchi can be clearly seen. His cycle “Le vergini” with sonnets , madrigals and a canzone belongs to the type of spiritual madrigal. The final part of “Vergine non poss'io” is remarkable in that it uses a kind of cantus firmus with a structure-building function.

Works

  • Sacred vocal works
    • “Assumens Jesus” for four voices, in Novi thesauri musici liber I , 1568
    • “Domine ne longe facias” with four voices, in Novi atque catholici thesauri musici liber II , 1568
    • "Exaudi Domine deprecationem" for five voices, in Novi atque catholici thesauri musici liber II , 1568
    • “Beatus Benedictus abbas” with five voices
    • “Dilexit Andream” to five votes
    • “Domine Dominus noster” to six votes
    • “Domine ostende nobis” with four voices, in Novi atque catholici thesauri musici liber III , 1568
    • "Euge serve bone" with five votes
    • “Veni sponsa Christi” with five votes
    • “Vos estis sal terrae” with five voices, in Novi atque catholici thesauri musici liber IV , 1568
    • Missa supra “Io son ferito” with five voices
  • Secular vocal works
    • "Il primo libro de madrigali a 4 voci con una serenata et un dialogo a 8 nel fine", 1570
    • "Le vergini [...] libro primo a 6 voci con un dialogo a 8", 1574
    • "Il primo libro de madrigali a 5 e 6 voci", 1586
    • “Dite signori miei” with eight voices, in Tertius gemmae musicalis liber […] , Nuremberg 1590
    • “Sacre muse beate” with eight voices, in Tertius gemmae musicalis liber […] , Nuremberg 1590

Literature (selection)

  • A. Smijers: The imperial court music band from 1543–1619. In: Studien zur Musikwissenschaft (supplements to the monuments of music art in Austria) No. 6, 1919, pages 139–186; No. 7, 1920, pp. 102-142; No. 8, 1921, pp. 177-206; No. 9, 1922, pp. 43-81
  • Alfred Einstein: The Italian Madrigal , Princeton 1949
  • H. Federhofer: Music maintenance and musician at the Graz Habsburg court of the Archdukes Karl and Ferdinand of Inner Austria, 1564–1619 , Mainz 1967
  • K. Powers: The Spiritual Madrigal in Counter-Reformation Italy: Destination, Use and Style , Dissertation at Santa Barbara University 1997 (University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor / Michigan, No. 9800481)

Web links

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  1. ↑ The Music in Past and Present (MGG), Person Part Volume 5, Bärenreiter and Metzler, Kassel and Basel 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1115-2
  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 7, McMillan Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3
personal data
SURNAME Duc, Philippe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Le Duc, Philippe; Duc, Filippo; LeDuc, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH around 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Flanders
DATE OF DEATH after 1586