Pieter Cornet

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Pieter Cornet (* around 1575 in Brussels ; † March 27, 1633 ibid) was a Franco-Flemish composer and organist of the Renaissance .

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No information has been passed on about the origins and years of training of Pieter Cornet. The first documented news about his work is his employment as organist at the Saint-Nicolas church in Brussels from 1603 to 1606. He then took over the position of court organist in the same city for Archduke Albrecht and his wife Isabella . His colleagues in the same position were Peter Philips , John Bull , Juan Zacarias and Vicenzio Gumai. Tradition shows that Peter Philips was mainly assigned to the Archduke and Pieter Cornet more to Duchess Isabella. Cornet took over the office of canon in the town of Zinnik ( Soignies ) in 1611 , but gave up this position after just one month because he had decided to marry in the same year. The birth of seven children is documented for the years 1612 to 1623. In the account books of the Brussels court orchestra, Pieter Cornet is listed as a musician for the years 1612 to 1618; However, it is very likely that he remained connected to this institution in the following years until the end of his life, while simultaneously working with John Bull and Peter Philips. The people in charge of the Saint Rombouts Cathedral in Mechelen had already taken Cornet's advice in 1615 about their organ; In 1624 he contracted to supervise the construction of part of this organ.

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Even if only a few works by Pieter Cornet have survived, these testify to a great versatility and to the familiarity with organ music from Germany, England, Spain and Italy gained at the international court in Brussels. A toccata with fantasia is clearly reminiscent of the works of Girolamo Frescobaldi , Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli , Girolamo Diruta or Claudio Merulo . The style of Spanish organ pieces with their characteristic features of a " Tiento de medio registro de baxon" is shown in another Fantasia by Cornet. The figuration and ornamentation of some works show English influence, possibly mediated by John Bull and Peter Philips. In contrast to his famous contemporary Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck , his great fantasies are multi-themed; they are characterized by lively invention and rich structure.

Works (all for organ)

Literature (selection)

  • Charles Van den Borren : Les Origines de la musique de clavier dans les Pays-Bas (Nord et Sud) jusque vers 1630 , Brussels 1914
  • MA Ferrard: Peeter Cornet (? –1633), organiste à la cour d'Albert et Isabelle à Bruxelles , dissertation at the Vrije University of Brussels 1970
  • M. Armstrong: Peeter Cornet (? –1633), organiste à la cour d'Albert et Isabelle à Bruxelles , Mémoire de License, Brussels 1970
  • RH Kelton: Christ Church (Oxford) Music Manuscript # 89: A Seventeenth-Century Organ Book , dissertation at Boston University 1974
  • Guido Persoons: De orgels en organisten van de Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk te Antwerpen van 1500 tot 1650 , Brussels 1981

Web links

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  1. ↑ The music in past and present (MGG), person part Volume 4, Bärenreiter and Metzler, Kassel and Basel 2000, ISBN 3-7618-1114-4
  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. ↑ Lexicon of the Organ, edited by Hermann Josef Busch and Matthias Geuting, 2nd edition, Laaber 2008, ISBN 978-3-89007-508-2
personal data
SURNAME Cornet, Pieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cornet, Peeter; Cornette, Pierre; Cornetta, Pieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Flemish composer and organist of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH around 1575
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1633
Place of death Brussels