Gilles Joye
Gilles Joye (* 1424/25 in the diocese of Tournai ();? † December 31, 1483 in Bruges ) was a Flemish theologian, poet, singer and composer.
Life
Probably Gilles Joye 's son Oliver Joyes, who owned a house in 1420 in Courtrai. About Gilles training is not known.
On May 16, 1449 Gilles Joye is the first time documentary detectable: he was a singer at Saint- Donatian in Bruges, that cathedral so that it should remain connected throughout his life. Several misconduct of the young man are noted in the chapter files. Thus, on March 15, 1451 reports on him, he had read during the Mass last Christmas Day together with his friends Johannes Jacobus Tayaert band and satirical verses on his colleagues. On August 19, 1451, he was admonished for participating in a street fight, on September 27, 1451 because of an altercation with the schoolmaster, whom he had called a, confabulando ... ut iret in locum suum '. On January 7, 1452 the chapter Joye, Tayaert, Leonis and the composer Cornelius Heyns reprimanded because of their explicit refusal to assist the Succentor when singing motets on the eve of Epiphany; that they had been protesting against the decision of the chapter, continue to suppress the traditional Donkey Festival.
From 1453 to 1460 Joye was a canon of the collegiate church of the Assumption in Kleve. Whether this office was associated with residence duties, is not known. As Joye is applied on November 27, 1454, once again as a chorister at Saint- Donatian in Bruges, was it means that he first had to improve his lifestyle and learn to hold his tongue (, abstinere from ablocutionibus quibus habundare consuevit '), had above all to separate from his concubine who live with him among the people, as, Rosa Belle ' (, vocatam in vulgo Rosa Belle ') is known.
On September 16, 1459 Joye canons of Saint- Donatian in Bruges, a year later, on November 3, 1460, chaplain to Saint Basil, a branch of Saint- Donatians.
Since September 1462 Joye was the court chapel of Philip the Good, first as a clerc, later as chappelain, and had, in 1467 over the Bold Charles, on the side of such major composers as Hayne van Ghizeghems, Robert Morton, Antoine Busnoys to 1468 in this institution. Then he paused due to illness, was one of the chapel but officially to 1470 /71.
Also during his membership in the court orchestra Joye perceived duties as a cleric and musician at various churches. From 1465 to 1473 he was pastor ( pastor parochialis ) to Saint- Hippolyte ( Oude Kerk ) in Delft. He served several times at Saint- Donatian as a musical expert, eg entrance exams budding choristers.
In 1470 he founded as a canon of Saint- John -van -der- Coutre larger sums of money for the choir boys and donated as magister fabrice 1467-69 for the copy of polyphonic music much money. 1468 he administered the ducal foundations and earned two precious graduals the bookseller Jean de Clerc, which he in 1481 and 1482 but still owed the purchase price. 1482 lived Joye and the singer Pierre Basin at the audition of three candidates for the post of organist at Saint- Donatian. The Office finally got Eustacius de Paris.
Gilles Joye died on December 31, 1483 and in spite of many difficulties that arose when settling his debts, he received a beautiful funeral, at which the bell, Lenaerd ' of Saint- Donatian Cathedral rang. many requiems were read in his memory, for he had left a foundation. His grave was in the sacristy of the cathedral.
Gilles- Joyes portrait
Probably Gilles Joye has even perceived as an important person. Testimony of this awareness places the exceptional, resulting in 1472 and Hans Memling Portrait attributed Joyes. One inscription on the frame can be seen that Joye was then 47 years old. Originally it was the right panel of a Diptichons whose left, lost, page showed the Virgin Mary with the child. Joye is not shown as a musician, just as Jacob Obrecht over 20 years later, but as a worshiper. Striking are two golden rings on his left hand. One shows the emblem of Joyes, as is well known from his tomb, the other a blue stone.
The work
From Gilles Joye only 5 songs have survived. Stylistically, they mediate between the Chansons Gilles Binchois and Antoine Busnoys.
The tradition of some songs in Italian sources has given rise to the presumption Joye have lived some time in Italy. But so far, could be found for this assumption is not the slightest documentary clue.
2 Measure O rosa bella
Maybe Joye is also the author of two anonymous of traditional fairs " O rosa bella" ( Trent Codex 88, No. 475-479 and Trent Codex 90, No. 1114-1118 ), whose title could be a hidden tribute to Rosa Bella, on account of which Joye 1454 was reprimanded. Stylistically, the fairs could fit Joye.
- Franco - Flemish composer
- Singer of the Renaissance
- Roman Catholic theologian (15th century)
- Author
- Born in the 15th century
- Died in 1483
- Man