Pierre de Manchicourt

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Pierre de Manchicourt (* around 1510 in Béthune (today in the Pas-de-Calais department ); † October 5, 1564 in Madrid ) was a Franco-Flemish composer and conductor of the Renaissance .

Live and act

The Belgian musicologist Richard Vannes announced in 1947 that Pierre de Manchicourt had worked as a choirboy at the cathedral in Arras in 1525 . More information about his biography can be found on the front pages of his five most important publications. Accordingly, he was choirmaster at the Cathedral of Tours in 1539 , Kapellmeister and teacher of the choirboys at the Cathedral of Tournai in 1545 and singing teacher in 1554. Two years later he was active again in Arras, namely as "Canon". When Nicolas Payen died as court conductor of King Philip II of Spain on April 24, 1559, Manchicourt was appointed as his successor. King Philip finally moved his court to Madrid in 1561, where Pierre de Manchicourt died three years later.

meaning

The highly respected office of the Spanish court conductor speaks for Manchicourt's reputation as a musician and composer; other contemporary appreciations have come down to us from the French poet François Rabelais (in the prologue of his Quart livre , 1552) and the Italian chronicler Lodovico Guicciardini . The latter has placed Pierre de Manchicourt in line with Josquin Desprez , Nicolas Gombert , Thomas Crécquillon , Cipriano de Rore and Orlando di Lasso .

The vast majority of the 19 masses handed down by Manchicourt are of the parody type based on models by Jean Mouton , Claudin de Sermisy , Jean Lhéritier and Benedictus Appenzeller . In his masses, but even more so in his four- and five-part motets , Manchicourt's predilection for the imitation movement and the varied repetition becomes evident. In his motets in particular, the composer combines an omnipresent imitative counterpoint with a melismatic text declamation . In contrast, his two- to eight-part chansons have a wider range of styles; here one often finds a less strict counterpoint than in his motets. On the other hand, several chansons are closer to the Parisian chanson style of Claudin de Sermisy due to the partial application of homorhythmic passages.

Works

Complete edition: Pierre de Manchicourt, Opera omnia , edited by JD Wicks and L. Wagner, 7 volumes, without location information 1971–1999 (= Corpus mensurabilis musicae No. 55 / 1–7)

  • Masses (with the composer of the original)
    • Missa "Ceste une dure départie" for four voices (Sermisy)
    • Missa "Congratulamini" with four voices (template not identified)
    • Missa "Cuides vous que Dieu" to five voices ( Richafort )
    • Missa "De domina virgine Maria" with five voices (without template)
    • Missa "De retourner" to four votes (anonymous)
    • Missa "Deus in adjutorium" for four voices (Sermisy)
    • Missa "Ego flos campi" to four voices (Le Heurteur)
    • Missa "Gris et tannet me fault porter" for four voices (Sermisy)
    • Missa "Nisi Dominus" for four voices (Jean Lhéritier / Le Heurteur)
    • Missa "Noe, noe" for four voices (Mouton)
    • Missa "Non conturbetur cor vestrum" for four voices (Manchicourt)
    • Missa "Povre cuer" with four voices (anonymous)
    • Missa "Quo abiit dilectus tuus" for four voices (Manchicourt)
    • Missa "Reges terrae" with six voices (Manchicourt)
    • Missa "Reges terrae congregati sunt" for four voices (Mouton)
    • Missa "Se dire je losoie" with four voices (Appenzeller)
    • Missa "Surge et illuminare" for four voices (original not identified)
    • Missa "Veni Sancte Spiritus" with six voices (without template)
    • Fair section “Domine Deus” to two votes
    • Requiem for five voices
  • Motets (summary)
    • Single print “Liber decimus quartus XIX musicas cantiones continet”, Paris 1539, therein 19 motets of four, five and six parts
    • Single print “Liber quintus cantionum sacrarum”, Löwen 1554, therein 14 motets of five to six voices
    • Manuscript “Liber quatuor missarum musicalium”, therein 11 motets
  • Chansons (summary)
    • Single print “Le Neufiesme Livre des chansons”, Antwerp 1545 by Tilman Susato , therein 29 chansons
    • In individual manuscripts: another 13 chansons
  • Works of uncertain authorship
    • "Audi, filia, et vide" with five voices (partly attributed to Crécquillon)
    • "Par trop aymer ma dame et ma maistresse" (partly attributed to Crécquillon)

Literature (selection)

  • Lodovico Guicciardini: Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patricio fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferore etc. , Antwerp 1567, page 28 and following
  • R. Vannes: Dictionaire des musiciens, (compositeurs) , Brussels [1947], page 262 and following
  • JD Wicks: The Motets of Pierre de Manchicourt (approx. 1510−1564) , dissertation at Harvard University, Cambridge / Massachusetts 1959
  • Marc Honegger: Les Chansons spirituelles de Didier Lupi et les débuts de la musique protestante en France au XVIe siècle , 3 volumes, Thèse principale, Universitè de Paris 1970, volume 1,44, reprint Lille 1971
  • R. Tomiczek-Gernez: Pierre de Manchicourt and the missa ad imitationem modulorum , Brussels 1993
  • A. Coeurdevey: Un catalogue informatisé de la chanson de la Renaissance (c. 1480–1600). In: Acta musicologica No. 74, 2002, issue 2, pages 219–222

Web links

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  1. ^ Marie-Alexis Colin:  Manchicourt, Pierre de. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 11 (Lesage - Menuhin). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  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 .
  3. ^ John D. Wicks, Lavern J. Wagner:  Manchicourt, Pierre de. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
personal data
SURNAME Manchicourt, Pierre de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mancicourt, Pierre de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Flemish composer and bandmaster of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH around 1510
PLACE OF BIRTH Bethune
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1564
Place of death Madrid