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His works also appear in the following printed collections catalogued at CPDL: | His works also appear in the following printed collections catalogued at CPDL: | ||
*''[[Motettorum, Book 7 (Pierre Attaingnant)|Motettorum, Book 7]]'' (Pierre Attaingnant, Paris, 1534) contains three Magnificat antiphons for Advent, for 4–6vv | *''[[Motettorum, Book 7 (Pierre Attaingnant)|Motettorum, Book 7]]'' (Pierre Attaingnant, Paris, 1534) contains three Magnificat antiphons for Advent, for 4–6vv | ||
*''[[Second livre des chansons a quatre parties (Tielman Susato)|Second livre des chansons a quatre parties]]'' (Tielman Susato, Antwerp, 1544) contains five of his ''chansons'', for 4vv | |||
*''[[Sacrarum cantionum … quinque et sex vocum, liber 1]]'' (Hubert Waelrant & Jan de Laet, Antwerp, 1554) contains two of his motets, for 5–6vv | *''[[Sacrarum cantionum … quinque et sex vocum, liber 1]]'' (Hubert Waelrant & Jan de Laet, Antwerp, 1554) contains two of his motets, for 5–6vv | ||
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Aliases: Mancicourt, Manchicurti
Life
Born: c. 1510, Béthune
Died: 5 October 1564, Madrid
Biography
Few records of Manchicourt's life survive: information about his life and work is obtained primarily from publications of his works. The earliest known information indicates that in 1525 he was a choirboy at Arras. By 1539, he was provost at the cathedral in Tours, where he would have had access to a considerable library of the works of the great master, and previous incumbent, Johannes Ockeghem. For at least nine years, from 1545 to 1554, he held the post of maître de chapelle at Nôtre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai. On the death of the incumbent, Nicolas Payen, in 1559, Manchicourt was appointed maestro de capilla flamenca (master of the Flemish chapel) at the court of Philip II in Madrid, which post he held until his death five years later.
The fact that Pierre Attaingnant, publisher of the French Royal Court, devoted his fourteenth and final volume of motets in 1539 entirely to Manchicourt's work (an honour he bestowed on no other, and emulated by Flemish publishers Susato and Phalèse in 1545 and 1554 respectively) bears testament to the composer's reputation in his day. Around the time of his death, Manchicourt's highly polyphonic style of composition rapidly went out of fashion — a fate shared with his contemporaries Nicolas Gombert, Jacobus Clemens and Thomas Crecquillon — as the liturgical reforms of the Council of Trent took hold, marking the transition from the High Renaissance to the less florid Late-Renaissance style of Victoria and Palestrina.
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List of choral works
Sacred works
Manchicourt’s sacred works appear in more than fifty printed collections and at least twenty hand-copied manuscripts, dating from 1532 through to the late 16th century. His surviving sacred output consists of nineteen masses, a mass section, a Magnificat, 71 Latin motets (of which one has doubtful attribution and two have conflicting attribution), and two chansons spirituelles. A further nine sacred works — polychoral psalm settings — are contained in a degraded manuscript in Zaragoza whose contents are not documented.
Masses, mass section, Magnificat
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Latin sacred motets
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Chansons spirituelles
These two chansons, published in one source as two parts of a single work, are a French paraphrase of Psalm 130:
Summary of sacred works available at CPDL (listed automatically)
Secular works
Manchicourt's surviving secular output includes three dedicatory motets, and fifty French chansons that appear in at least sixteen publications (including one devoted entirely to Manchicourt's works).
Latin dedicatory motets
- Nunc enim si centum 4vv (2.p. Ne dubitatis; 3.p. Innumeras unus) – in praise of Charles V
- Nil pace est melius 5vv (2.p. Vive igitur felix) – in celebration of a treaty restoring possessions to Duke Moritz of Saxony
- O decus, o patrie lux 5vv (2.p. Salve, pontificum) — in praise of Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, patron of the arts, to whom Manchicourt dedicated his 1554 volume of motets
Chansons
Summary of secular works available at CPDL (listed automatically)
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Publications
Three of the pre-eminent publishers of the mid-16th century each devoted one of their volumes to Manchicourt’s works:
- Motettorum, Book 14 (Pierre Attaingnant, Paris, 1539) contains 19 of his motets, for 4–6vv
- Neufiesme livre des chansons a quatre parties (Tielman Susato, Antwerp, 1545) contains 29 of his chansons, for 4–5vv
- Cantionum sacrarum liber 5 (Pierre Phalèse, Leuven, 1554) contains 14 of his motets, for 5–6vv
His works also appear in the following printed collections catalogued at CPDL:
- Motettorum, Book 7 (Pierre Attaingnant, Paris, 1534) contains three Magnificat antiphons for Advent, for 4–6vv
- Second livre des chansons a quatre parties (Tielman Susato, Antwerp, 1544) contains five of his chansons, for 4vv
- Sacrarum cantionum … quinque et sex vocum, liber 1 (Hubert Waelrant & Jan de Laet, Antwerp, 1554) contains two of his motets, for 5–6vv
External links
Works by Pierre de Manchicourt in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)