Loyset Compère
Loyset Compère (c. 1440/45 in the Diocese of Arras and Hainaut ( Hainault ); † August 16, 1518 in Saint -Quentin ) was a Franco- Flemish composer, singer and clerics.
- 2.1 Measurement, Fragmenta Missarum
- 2.2 motets cycles
- 2.3 Magnificat settings of
- 2.4 motets
- 2.5 motet - chansons
- 2.6 Three Part Chansons
- 2.7 Four-part chansons
- 2.8 Frottole
- 2.9 Works of dubious authenticity
Life
1440/45-1474
According to Jean Molinet (1435-1507), who knew Compère well, comes from the composer of a family from Saint- Omer. A Milan document of 1476 lists it as a cleric of Arras, which is located near Saint- Omer. Nevertheless, secured a decree of Charles VIII of France in April 1494 Compère the French nationality and even mentioned explicitly that Compère from Hainaut came. This apparent contradiction is not clear.
About Comperes training is not known. Maybe he was in the 1460s - years in conjunction with the French royal court, as his earliest composition Puis que si bee (before 1465), is located in a manuscript, which provides the repertoire of the French court chapel. On a connection to Cambrai has Comperes motet Omnium bonorum plena, created perhaps the occasion of the consecration of the Cathedral of Cambrai on July 5, 1472, or at a meeting of the French and Burgundian court on 16 and 17 October 1468 Cambrai. Comperes motet, which is already the work of a mature master, quoted Hayne van Ghizeghems known chanson De tous biens plaine.
Milan 1474-1477
Documentary tangible Compère is in Milan for the first time. The Dukes of Milan maintained close relations with the French royal court, and thus it is not surprising that Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza at November 23, 1472 letter to Johannes Ockeghem with the request turned, located him in recruiting singers for his since 1471 under construction to his court orchestra to assist you. Among the singers was committed Compère. On July 15, 1474 he was listed as a new member of the main choir of the chapel. His name also appears in lists of 30 March and December 4, 1475. The most significant colleague Comperes was Gaspar van Weerbeke.
In September 1476 the duke endeavored to obtain for Compère a benefice of Saint- Georigio -de- Catasijs in Pavia, but that was already taken. After the assassination of the Duke on December 26, 1476 Comperes ended career in Milan. On January 7, 1477, the Court decided to reduce the chapel. A document dated February 6, 1477 called Compère among those who had been laid off.
France 1477-1494
Compère went, accompanied by Jehan Fresneau, to France. Maybe he found some time employed at the court of Duke Jean II of Bourbon († 1488 ) in Moulins. The reason for this assumption is the striking fact that Compère set to music three poems of the Duke. This hypothesis, however, is not supported by any documentary information.
1486 served Compère at least in the run by Johannes Ockeghem chapel of the French court. A papal bull of July 28, 1486 calls him a cleric of the diocese of Arras and chappelain ordinaire et chantre of the French king.
In a decree of Charles VIII of France from April 1494 was nostre books and bien amé chappelain ordinaire et chantre de chapelle nostre maistre Loys Compère, du pays de Haynault natif, after submitting a humble French nationality supplicatcion confirmed that he obviously did not previously owned had, and it also makes it the possession of those benefices in France assurances that had been given to him in his capacity as a member of the royal chapel.
From June 1492 to May 1493 was Compère clerics at Notre Dame in Paris, a church, to which the king delights housed deserving members of his chapel. Here Compère was consecrated on March 2, 1493 as a priest of the Cathedral and exchanged a short time later two benefices at Notre Dame and Sainte- Trinité in Montlhery against a benefice in Voyenne ( diocese of Laon ) a.
Italy 1494/95
In the fall of 1494 accompanied Compère King Charles VIII on his expedition to Italy. In a letter dated October 7, 1494 Ferrante d' Este wrote to his father, the music-loving Duke Ercole I d' Este of Ferrara, that he had met Compère in Casale Montferrato. Compère apologize profusely to not be in a position to be able to supply your grace with some good compositions, for the works which he had with him were old. He said that he had left his books in France, where he had some good new compositions, and he would be lucky to satisfy your worship, when it is to be able.
Probably spent the Compère January 1495 in Rome, when Charles and his troops occupied the city. The 1495 or shortly thereafter executed transcript of some representative motets Comperes in the choir book I RVAT CS15 ( Crux triumphans Propter gravamen, Quis numerare queat, Sile Fragor ) should go back to this stay. These compositions have been created either in Italy or are they constitute some of the mentioned Ferrante d' Este old compositions.
In July 1495 Compère witnessed the Battle of Fornovo and wrote to celebrate the French victory the song Vive le noble roy.
France 1495-1518
Between April 30, 1498 and May 5, 1500 Compère was doyen of the Collegiate of Saint- Gery, Cambrai, where he presided over 48 canons. At least since 1500 had Compère the Bachelor of churches and civil law. From 1500 to 1503 or 1504 he held the position of provost of the collegiate church of Saint- Pierre in Douain. He had evidently not simple stand; since 1503 lifted the men of the city on the immunity of the monastery and fought forced entry to the house Comperes.
Compère gave up his post in favor Douain Duwez Pierre, a former musician of the Burgundian court chapel, who had owned a provost in Condé, in turn, Josquin Desprez took over in May 1504.
His last years were spent at the collegiate Compère in Saint -Quentin, where he was canon since November 1491 and had paid a fee to a benefice in the diocese of Coutances.
Despite his benefice remained Compère connected even after 1498 the French chapel. He composed the motet Gaude prole regia for the reception of Philip the Fair on November 25, 1501 in Paris. The text, a prayer to the Saint Catherine of Alexandria, describes in praise of the saints, the connectedness of France and Flanders. The motet Sola caret monstris 1507 composed a bitter diatribe against Pope Julius II in favor of King Louis XII contains ..
Compère died on August 16, 1518 in Saint -Quentin. He was buried with great honor in the local Collegiate Church.
The work
Fairs, Fragmenta Missarum
Motets cycles
1st Ave Domine Jesu Christe ( Missa de D.N.J.C ).
( Includes: Ave Domine Jesu Christe, in loco introitus; Ave Domine Jesu Christe, in loco Gloria; Ave Domine Jesu Christe, in loco creed; Ave Domine Jesu Christe, in loco Offertorii; Salve, salvator mundi, in loco Sanctus; Adoramus te, Christe, in loco Elevationem; Parce, Domine, in loco Agnus; Da pacem, Domine, in loco Deo Gratias ).
2 Hodie nobis de virgin ( Missa in Nativitate Deus Noster Jesu Christe )
( Includes: Hodie nobis de Virgine, in loco introitus; Beata Dei Genetrix Mary, in loco Gloria; Hodie nobis natus est Christ, in loco creed; Genuit puerpera Regem, in loco Offertorii; Sanctum Verbum caro factum est, Memento, salutis auctor, post Elevationem; Quem vidistis, pastores in loco Agnus; ? admirabile O commercium, Deo gratias in loco ).
3 Missa Galeazescha ( Missa de Beata Maria Virgine )
( Includes: Ave virgo gloriosa, in loco introitus; Ave, salus infirmorum, in loco Gloria; Ave, decus virginals, in loco creed; Ave, sponsa verbi summi, in loco Offertorii, O Mary, in loco Sanctus; Adoramus te, Christe, in loco Elevationem; Salve mater salvatoris, in loco Agnus; Virginis Mariae laudes, Deo Gratias in loco ).