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)
• 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, a 4
• 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 (2.p. Ecce quam bonum), 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 paupertas nostra, a 4 (T of Hayne van Ghizeghem’s chanson Mon souvenir in Sup; cf Jacquet’s setting)
• Veni electa mea a 6
• Veni sponsa Christi, a 5 (model for Mass above)
• 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)