Adam de la Halle

Adam de la Halle (* 1237 in Arras, Artois, † 1286/1287 or 1306 in Naples) was a French Trouvère ( Troubadour ).

Adam de la Halle, Adam le bossu ( the hunchback ) or le boiteux ( the lame ), called one of the most famous Trouvères. He first studied in the Cistercian abbey Vauxcelles. Here he was to be prepared for his father's request to the clergy. But he fell in love there and married. After a failed marriage, he then continued his studies in Paris and graduated from there with a degree maître des arts.

The writer

1271 he was Ménestrel of Count Robert II of Artois and was therefore come to Naples at the court of Charles of Anjou, king of Sicily. In Naples, Adam emerged as a playwright. His Jeu de la Feuillée ( 1276/77 ) was the first satirical theater piece of French literature: Adam brings in this piece himself, his father, his wife, Crazy and fairies as well as various rich patrician of Arras on the stage and caricatured and they predominantly evil in a series of scenes that appear as snappy Rundumschläge from a life crisis out.

His lyrical drama by Robin and Marion (Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion ), the first famous lovers of European literature, was established here in 1284. Alternately they sing in unanimous tunes the story of their love. Once occurs, add a recorder and at the end of a drum.

The trouvère

Adam de la Halle belonged to the third generation of Trouvères ( 1250-1300 ). During this time the initiative came to the middle class over, the singer called in associations, Puis, merged. The originality was replaced by competition, Government regulation and artificiality. This marked the end of the troubadours and the Trouvèresbewegung was initiated.

Adam de la Halle has by its unanimous songs composed three-voice rondeau and motets. He puts forth herein, the connection of the unanimous Trouvère singing for polyphonic art music.