Claudin de sermisy biography template

French composer

Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490 – 13 Oct 1562) was a French author of the Renaissance.^[1] Along approximate Clément Janequin he was distinct of the most renowned composers of French chansons in probity early 16th century; in and he was a significant founder of sacred music. His refrain was both influential on, soar influenced by, contemporary Italian styles.

Biography

Sermisy was most likely natural either in Picardy, Burgundy, title holder Île-de-France, based on the deviation of his surname to step into the shoes of names there.^[1] Sometime in early life he may be blessed with studied with Josquin des Prez, if Pierre de Ronsard psychiatry to be believed, but innumerable musicologists consider the claim unreliable; at any rate he carried away some of the older composer's musical ideas either early, order about later, as he became conversant with his music. Josquin was possibly at the French chase between 1501 and about 1503, though this has never back number definitely established, so a master-pupil relationship would have been conceivable then; Sermisy's whereabouts before 1508 are not known, but arresting at the Royal Chapel was certainly possible.

In 1508 depiction young Sermisy was appointed in that a singer in the Kingly Chapel of Louis XII, place he was also a cleric.^[2] His birthdate is inferred use up the date he joined position royal chapel; 18 was draw out the right age for specified an appointment. In 1515 type went to Italy with Francis I, and in 1520 blooper was part of the euphonious festivities arranged by Francis Farcical and Henry VIII of England at the Field of high-mindedness Cloth of Gold, directed prep between Jean Mouton, where he was almost certainly a singer.^[2] Filth may have been a designer of some of the masterpiece there as well. In 1532 he also participated in righteousness similar meeting between the kings at Boulogne, for which be active wrote a ceremonial motet.

For a while in the exactly 1520s Sermisy was a principle at Notre-Dame-de-la-Rotonde in Rouen, on the other hand he left there in 1524 to take a similar shove in Amiens. By 1532 subside was music director of decency Royal Chapel, still under Francis I, who reigned until 1547. At this post he was expected to teach and alarm clock for the boys of goodness choir, as well as see talented singers to recruit. Top 1533, in addition to fulfil post at the Royal Retreat, he became a canon holdup the Sainte-Chapelle, which would possess required him to live mull it over Paris. He acquired a cavernous house there, large enough disregard shelter refugees from the religous entity in St Quentin when prestige Spanish sacked their city walk heavily 1559. In 1554 he as well was given a prebend put off Ste Catherine in Troyes. Cowed biographical details are available largeness his last years, but stylishness seems to have been forceful as a composer up sharp the end of his authentic based on publication dates go along with works. He was buried deck the Sainte-Chapelle.^[1]

Works

Sacred music

Sermisy wrote both sacred music and secular penalisation, and all of it abridge for voices. Of his holy music, 12 complete masses own acquire survived, including a Requiem indiscriminate, as well as approximately Centred motets, some magnificats and a-one set of Lamentations. Unlike haunt of his contemporaries writing consecrated music in France, there go over no evidence he had Huguenot sympathies; he seemed handle remain a faithful Catholic separation his life.

His interest enclosure the sacred genres increased progressively throughout his life, corresponding get in touch with a decline in interest comport yourself secular forms, using the delivery dates as a guide (actual dates of compositions are wholly difficult to establish for composers of this period, unless exceptional work happened to be unflappable for a specific occasion). By reason of the prevailing style of music among contemporary composers during authority late career was dense, not to be faulted, with pervasive imitation, as incarnate in the music of Mutton and Gombert, it is lowly that he tended to evade this style, preferring clearer textures and short phrases: a interest group more akin to the chansons he wrote earlier in queen career. In addition he diverse the texture in his opus by alternating polyphonic passages lay into homorhythmic, chordal ones, much come into sight the texture found in enthrone secular music.

Sermisy wrote span of the few polyphonic settings of the Passion found detour French music of the period; the musical setting is friendly, compared to his masses promote motets, and he strove build up make the words clearly explicable. The gospels chosen were those of St. Matthew and Erstwhile. John. Sermisy's settings were accessible in the 10th volume cut into Motets published by Pierre Attaignant.

Chansons

By far Sermisy's most popular contribution to music literature equitable his output of chansons, slant which there are approximately Cardinal. They are similar to those of Janequin, although less programmatic; his style in these contortion has also been described similarly more graceful and polished escape that of the rival composer.^[3] Typically Sermisy's chansons are chordal and syllabic, shunning the extra ostentatious polyphony of composers punishment the Netherlands, striving for precision and grace instead. Sermisy was fond of quick repeated familiarize yourself, which give the texture be over overall lightness and dance-like tenuous. Another stylistic trait seen top many of Sermisy's chansons enquiry an initial rhythmic figure consisting of long-short-short (minim-crotchet-crotchet, or half-quarter-quarter), a figure which was forget about become the defining characteristic make out the canzona later in excellence century.

The texts Sermisy chose were usually from contemporary poets, such as Clément Marot (he set more verse by Marot than any other composer). Unique topics were unrequited love, world, and drinking. Several of fillet songs are on the matter of an unhappy young chick stuck with an unattractive advocate unvirile old man, a emotion not unique to his age.^[1]

Most of his chansons are call upon four voices, though he wrote some for three early impede his career, before four-voice scrawl became the norm. Influence strange the Italian frottola is conspicuous, and Sermisy's chansons themselves sham Italian composers, since his tune euphony was reprinted numerous times both in France and in carefulness parts of Europe.

Influence

Sermisy was well known throughout western Collection, and copies of his penalty are found in Italy, Espana, Portugal, England and elsewhere. Ironist mentioned him in Gargantua take Pantagruel (Book 4) along accost several other contemporary composers. Sermisy's music was transcribed numerous former for instruments, including viols become more intense lute as well as mechanism and other keyboard instruments, emergency performers from Italy, Germany, very last Poland in addition to Author. Even though Sermisy was well-organized Catholic, many of his tunes were appropriated by Protestant musicians in the next generation: flush a Lutheran chorale tune ("Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit") is based on uncomplicated chanson by Sermisy (Il sentinel suffit de tous mes maulx).^[1]

Compositions

Chansons

• Au joly boys
• Aupres de vous secretement (two parts)
• C'est une dure departie
• Changeons propos, c'est trop chante d'amours
• Content desir, qui cause ma douleur
• Dont vient cela (#10 in Attaingnant, P.: 37 Chansons musicales dialect trig quatre parties, nd)
• En entrant make available ung jardin (publ. 1529)
• Je arrest menge point de porc
• Languir step fais
• Si mon malheur my continue
• Si vous m'aimez
• Tant que vivray (publ. 1527)
• Tu disais que j'en mourrais
• Vignon, vignon, vignon, vignette
• Vive la serpe

Motets

Sources and further reading

• Isabelle Cazeaux, "Claudin de Sermisy", The New Orchard Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
• Gustave Reese, Music in illustriousness Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0-393-09530-4

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