Nicolas Grenon
Nicholas Grenon (* 1380 /85 † October 17, 1456 in Cambrai ) was frankoflämischer composer, singer, music teacher and cleric.
Origin and life
Grenon is first detected in 1399 in the Paris churches of Notre Dame and Saint- Sepulchre as a cleric and a canon and successor of his deceased brother Jean Grenon. At Saint- Sepulchre, he was in 1401 subdeacon, deacon later.
From 1403 until May 25, 1407 he was magister puerorum at the Cathedral in Laon. 1408, and in 1409 he taught for a short time at the cathedral in Cambrai six choristers grammar and sang in the choir Vicair as petit.
In July 1409, he assumed the post of magister puerorum at the Sainte -Chapelle in Bourges, but changed before August 1, 1412 to the post of magister puerorum under the Burgundian duke John the Fearless. One of his tasks was to provide for the welfare of the choir boys and to give them music lessons. After the duke's death († September 10, 1419 ) Grenon left the Burgundian service. He went to Cambrai, where it is demonstrably 1421-1424.
The singer Gilles Flannel and 4 choirboys Grenon 1425 traveled through Bologna to Rome and became magister puerorum in the Pontifical Chapel. During this time (1424-1425) he was in absentia canons of Saint- Donatien in Bruges.
1427 Grenon returned back to Cambrai. For his livelihood was taken care of, because on February 7, 1426 he became a canon at Cambrai Cathedral. Here he met Guillaume you Fay, the most important composers of his time. Not only colleagues shaft, even friendship connected the two. On May 19, 1429 Grenon gave the Cambraier Chapter to You Fay concerned letters and was in 1436 you, as this was intended for a canonry at the cathedral Fays procurator.
As canon Grenon took on various tasks. From 1437 to 1442 he was head of the petits vicaires. In the financial year 1439/1440 he was paid for the reading of 10 parvum requiem. In the financial year 1442/1443 he tested the capabilities of a recorder and copied various compositions in the central books of the choir.
Since 1445 he was you Fays neighbor in the Rue de l'Ecu d'or, opposite the bakery. 1446 Grenon acquired for Simon de Breton, who was at that time in Burgundy, one house. In 1447, the chapter warned him twice to remove a certain Jeanne Rousselle out of his house, which he had received as a cook in spite of their bad reputation. Grenon obeyed and dismissed Jeanne, but which was soon taken over by Simon Mellet, which led to temporary Mellets Einkarzerung. When Philip the Good in 1449 moved into Cambrai, Grenon received him in the cathedral and the church of Saint- Gery.
On October 17, 1456 Grenon died. The Virgilie his obsequies were held in the Cathedral on 19 October, a day later he was buried there. His grave had been inserted before the image of Saint Agnes under the church clock. His bronze plate was still present in the 18th century.
Work
Grenon, of whose work only a small fraction is handed down, one of the outstanding composers of the early 15th century. He produced in Rome Isorhythmic motet are among the best examples of the genre. The ballad Je ne requier de ma dame has found the admiration of his contemporaries.