Martin Peudargent

Martin Peudargent (* 1510 in Huy, Belgium today, † 1589-1594, also written Peu d' Argent or Peu d' argent ) was a church musician and court composer at the Jülich- Kleve Hof in Dusseldorf. From Peudargent motets are mostly preserved.

Life

The exact birth and death of the composer is unknown. According to the entry in the DNB he was born around 1525, according to recent research around 1510, because it is already occupied in 1532 as a homeowner in the residence city of Kleve. According to a source from 1587, where he was known as " Sang -Mr Mertin van Hoya " Peudargent originated from Huy in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

1550 he appeared as court composer in the service of William V of Jülich -Cleves -Berg. For this time is the fact that Peudargent has written on the occasion of the birth of the first daughter of the Duke Maria Eleonore (1550-1608), a motet under the title In Laudem Mariae Leonorae Guilielmi Ducis Clivensis, Juliacensis, mountains etc. Primogenitae. This he took as number 11 in 1555 on its printed collection of motets. He also wrote on the occasion of the birth of the son of Duke Karl Friedrich (1555-1575) two motets.

When John Oridryus in 1557 in Düsseldorf Publisher Bathen issued a music treatise under the title Practicae musicae utriusque praecepta brevia him Peudargent here as praefectum Collegii musici in aula Illustrissimi Principis Guilielmi Ducis nostri clementissimi ( head of the Collegium Musicum at the court of Duke Wilhelm ) was helpful. Four years later published Peudargent as a " master musician " in Oridryus and Buysius another collection of motets, in which he recorded works by other composers.

Peudargent 1585 was instrumental in the musical design of the wedding of the Duke's son Johann Wilhelm with Jakobi Margravine of Baden. Two years later, he complained in a petition dated 5 July 1587 that his benefits were reduced and he was no longer able to support his wife and children. In this petition he referred to the long services for the Duke and that he was blind in old age.

In the Jülich Landrentmeister bill of 1587 Peudargent was still named as " Sang -Mr Mertin van Hoya ," just as in the Hofordnung from 1589, however, no longer in the Hofordnung from 1594, from which it may be concluded that Peudargent died 1589-1594.

Peudargents collection of motets from the year 1555 is considered the first music Düsseldorf pressure. Although Peudargents tonal language has, in the harmony of his motets no new features compared to Clemens non Papa, but shows a greater departure from the church modes and a " liberal accentuation of the Latin text ."

Works (selection)

• Sacrarum Cantionum I, 12 five-part motets, J. Bathen, Dusseldorf 1555
• Sacrarum Cantionum II, 14 motets, of which one in six parts and 13 five voices, J. Bathen, Dusseldorf 1555
• Novi prorsus et elegantis libri musici, in quo continentur partim suavissima ... Moteta ... Latinae & Gallicae four-, five - and six-part motets, Oridryus & Buysius, Dusseldorf 1561st Alongside works by Peudargent were in this band and vocal works of Josquin Baston, Pierre de Manchicourt, Petit Jan de Latre and Clemens non Papa included. The pressure is lost after the Second World War.
• Misit me vivens pater four parts, Irrogat omnipotens six voices in: Sacrarum Cantionum diversorum autorum III, J. Bathen, Dusseldorf 1556
• Te Deum Patrem, in four parts, in: Ecclesiasticarum cantionum quatuor vocum II, Susato of Antwerp in 1553 and in: Tertius tomus evangeliorum, J. Montanus may Neuberus, Nuremberg 1555
• Il ne of the nest plaisir batement, six-part motet, in: Second Livre des Chansons et cincq a six parties, P. Phalèse, lions 1553
• A six-part Canzona in: Il vero modo di ... di Girolamo dalla diminuir Cas detto da Udene I, A. Gardano, Venice 1584
• Other motets in the manuscript of Proske Library.

Recordings

• Martin Peudargent: Music at the court of Duke Wilhelm V of Jülich -Cleves -Berg. Ensemble Rabaskadol, Fritz Heller ( zinc), Choir Capella 92, Conductor: Gerben van der Veen. Aliud Records, 2006