Jacquet de Berchem

Jacquet de Berchem (also Jakob van Berchem or Giachet (to) de Berchem, * 1505, † 1565 ) was a composer frankoflämischer. He is the first musician, called the Capriccio for related compositions. As his most famous work applies La Favola di Orlando, among other numerous madrigals and motets.

Jacquet de Berchem was born around the year 1505 in Berchem, then on the outskirts of Antwerp. From his early years nothing is known; to 1539, he traveled to Venice, where he probably pupil of his compatriot Adrian Willaert, founder of the Venetian school was, and thus more acquaintances made ​​with composers. Since then, about some of his compositions Madrigal in Venice were published in other editions, and in 1546 his first book of madrigals was published throughout his own compositions in Venice. Then he left Venice to four years to serve in Verona as Kapellmeister. He spent his last years in Monopoli in Bari, where he met his future spouse and with her had two children.

Jacquet de Berchem died in 1567. His works include some sacred works as well as more than two hundred secular works, most of them Madrigals.

Modern editions

Jachet Berchem, Il primo libro di madrigali a quattro voci ( 1555), a cura di Galliano Ciliberti e Giovanni Rota, Bari, Florestano Edizioni, 2010.