Pierre Attaingnant

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Pierre Attaingnant (also: Attaignant , Atteignant and Latinized Attingens ) (* around 1494 , † around 1552 in Paris ) was a French sheet music printer , music publisher and bookseller in Paris. From around 1527 to 1549 he was the editor of many compilations.

Life

The dates of his birth and death are different, presumably he was born in northern France in 1494 and died in Paris in 1552. The surname is mainly given as an attendant , but other spellings such as B. Attaignant, Ataignant, Atignan (t) etc. are known.

He published many works by French composers, especially chansons . From 1528 to 1552, more than 50 collections of chansons were published. Among other things, he published the works of Pierre Passereau . He also published some “dance books” , mainly containing pieces for the lute . Around 1527/1528 he invented a variant of sheet music printing that allowed printing in one operation. Every note mark, every note type (see also type ) was surrounded by a small segment of the note lines, so that the entire note image could be put together like a mosaic.

Attaignant produced 1000 and more copies per edition. With his variant of sheet music printing, he was a pioneer and model for many sheet music prints of the 16th and 17th centuries and held the royal monopoly until 1552, which he then lost to Robert Ballard and Adrian Le Roy ( Le Roy & Ballard ).

His best-known collection, Dixhuit basses dances , was probably created with the help of a “PB”, and contains basses danses as well as pavans , galliards and branles as well as chanson adaptations (such as “Destre amoureux” and “Tant que vivray” in Tres breve et familiere introduction ) and further lute pieces.

After his death, his widow Marie (Lescaloppier) continued the business until 1558.

Works

Audio sample: Basse Danse from a suite in the dance book

Attaignant is associated with the creation of the French song Tourdion .

Prints (selection)
  • Dixhuit basses dances garnies de Recoupes et Tordions avec dixneuf Branles quatre que Saulterelles que Haulberroys, quinze Gaillardes, et neuf Pavennes de la plus grant part dequelles le subiect est en musique. [...]. Paris (February) 1529.
  • Tres breve et familiere introduction pour entendre et apprendre par soy mesmes a iover toutes chansons reduictes en la tabulature de Lutz avec la maniere daccorder le dict Lutz. [...]. Paris (October) 1529.

Literature and editions of works

  • Chansons de luth et airs de cours français du xvie siècle . E. Droz, Paris 1934.
  • Paris dance book , Mainz, Schott, 1950. (reproduction of the Paris edition of 1529)
  • Daniel Heartz : Pierre Attaingnant, Royal Printer of Music: A Historical Study and Bibliography Catalog , Berkeley, University of California Press, 1969, ISBN 0-520-01563-0 .
  • Jean-Pierre Ouvrard:  Attaingnant, Pierre. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 1 (Aagard - Baez). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1111-X , Sp. 1188–1123 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • 12 Duets for equally tuned Renaissance Lute , edited by Anton Höger , Tree Edition, Lübeck.
  • Preludes, Chansons and Dances for Lute. Edited by Daniel Heartz, Société de Musique d'Autrefois, Neuilly-sur-Seine 1964.
  • Hubert Zanoskar (ed.): Guitar playing of old masters. Original music from the 16th and 17th centuries. Volume 1. B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1955 (= Edition Schott. Volume 4620), pp. 4, 6, 8 f. and 24.
  • Hans Dagobert Bruger (Ed.): Pierre Attaignant [1529], two- and three-part solo pieces for the lute. Möseler Verlag, Wolfenbüttel / Zurich 1926.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heartz 1969
  2. ↑ a b Ouvrard in MGG 1999, col. 1188
  3. ↑ Hubert Zanoskar (ed.): Guitar playing of old masters. Original music from the 16th and 17th centuries. Volume 1. B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1955 (= Edition Schott. Volume 4620), p. 24 ( Biographical Notes and Notes ).
  4. ↑ On the dances in Attaignant's lute works cf. Oswald Körte : Lute and lute music up to the middle of the 16th century. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1901 (= publications of the International Music Society. Supplement 3), p. 112 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Attendant, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Attaignant, Pierre; Ataignant, Pierre; Atignan, Pierre; Atignant, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French music printer, music publisher, bookseller and composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1494
DATE OF DEATH around 1552
Place of death Paris