Jean Richafort
Aliases: Richauffort, Rycefort, Ricartsvorde
Life
Born: c. 1480
Died: after 1550
Biography Richafort began his career in Mechelin in 1507 but seems to have had ties to Hainault or Liege; he joined the French royal court and traveled extensively, working at Bologna in 1517. before settling in Bruges. Pierre de Ronsard is the source for his having been a student of Josquin, to whom his Requiem is dedicated. A Joachim Richafort, employed by Queen Mary of Hungary from 1532 to 1543 and settled in Bruges by 1546 has caused some confusion; Jean was employed at St Gilles in Bruges 1543-4 and 1548-50.
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List of choral works
- Missa ‘O genitrix’, 4vv, (on Compère’s motet)
- Missa ‘Veni sponsa Christi’, 4vv (on his own motet)
- Requiem mass, 6vv
Motets
- Ad te levavi oculos meos (Nicolas Gombert) a 5 (misattributed to Richafort)
- Ave Maria, a 5
- Ave virgo gloriosa, a 4
- Beata Dei genitrix (Francesco de Layolle), a 5 (misattributed to Richafort)
- Christe totius dominator, a 4
- Christus resurgens, a 4
- Cognoscimus Domine, a 4
- Congratulamini mihi omnes, a 4 (probably by Le Brung; also misattributed to Richafort as well as Josquin)
- Consolatur captivorum, a 4
- Domine quis habitabit (lost)
- Ecce quam bonum (missing from NG list)
- Ego sum qui sum, a 5 (conflicting attributions to Hesdin, Mouton)
- Emendemus in melius, a 4
- Exaudiat te Dominus, a 4
- Gaudent in caelis (Philippe Verdelot), a 8 (misattributed to Richafort as well as to Phinot)
- Gloria, laus et honor
- Gloriosi principes terrae, a 4
- Hac clara die, a 4
- Hoc signum crucis, a 5
- Homo quidam, a 4
- In illo tempore: Dixit Jesus discipulis, a 5 by Denis Brumen) (misattributed to Richafort)
- Jam non dicam vos servos, a 5 (also attrib. Hellinck)
- Jerusalem luge, a 5 (also attrib. Hellinck, Caen, Verdelot)
- Laetamini in Domino, a 5
- Laus tua non tua fraus, a 2
- Levavi oculos meos (Nicolas Gombert), a 4 (misattributed to Richafort)
- Magnificat quinti toni (Antonius Divitis), a 4 (misattrib. Richafort in 19th-century score)
- Misereatur mei/Miserere mei Deus, a 5
- Miseremini mei, a 4 (also attrib. Josquin, Mouton)
- Non turbetur cor vestrum, a 5
- O beata infantia, a 6(also attrib. Willaert)
- O genitrix gloriosa (Loyset Compère, a 4 (misattributed to Richafort)
- O praesul egregie, a 4
- O quam dulcis et beata, a 4
- Pater noster, a 5
- Peccata mea Domine, a 4
- Philomena praevia, a 4 (attrib. ‘Glandin’ )
- Quem dicunt homines a 4
- Salve Regina a 3
- Salve Regina a 5
- Sancta Maria, succurre miseris, a 4
- Saulus adhuc spirans, a 5
- Si bona suscepimus (Philippe Verdelot), a 5 (misattributed to Richafort)
- Sufficiebat nobis/Mon souvenir, a 4 (T of Hayne van Ghizeghem’s chanson in Sup; cf Jacquet’s setting)
- Veni electa mea a 6
- Veni sponsa Christi, a 5
- Vinum bonum et suave, a 5
Chansons
- Cuidez vous que Dieu nous faille, a 5
- D’Amours je suis desheritée, a 5
- De mon triste et desplaisir, a 4
- En revenant du bois, a 3
- Gentilz gallans, a 3
- Hors de plaisir, a 4
- Il n’est sy doulce vie, a 4
- J’ay veu que souloye, a 3
- Je fus l’autrier, a 3
- Je veulx laysser melancolie, a 4
- L’amour de moy, a 3
- Le temps qui court, a 4
- Navez point veu a 3
- Ne vous chaille a 5
- Qui est celuy, a 3
- Sur tous regretz, a 4
- Sy je m’y plain, a 5
- Tru tru trut avant, il fault boire a 3
Misattributed
- La rousée du moys de may (Adrian Willaert)
- N’as tu point veu la viscontine a 3 (Adrian Willaert)
- N’as tu point veu la viscontine a 4 (atypical)
- Or, vray Dieu, qu’il est enuye (Crequillon?)
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Publications
With one posthumous exception Richafort's work was printed in anthologies.
- Joannis Richafort modulorum quatuor quinque & sex vocum, liber primus (1556, Le Roy & Ballard)
External links
- Works by Jean Richafort in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)