JANEQUIN, CLÉMENT. - Belgian composer, active in the 16th century, about whose life very little is known. A pupil of Després, later chaplain to Francis of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, he was wrongly confused with ClemensJacob (v.).
The creator of the French chanson in the "a cappella" style, he is the author of masses and motets; Sacrae cantiones seu motetta, 4 vols. (Paris 1533); Proverbes de Salomon mis en cantique et rime française (ibid. 1558); Octante psaumes de David (ibid. 1559). Many of his chansons were printed in Paris in 1529 and in Venice in 1538; others in subsequent editions, while not a few survive in manuscript in various libraries of France and in Rome. All of J.'s compositions stand out for originality and beauty of invention, and in many chansons the imitative style is skillfully expressed in pictures of splendid sonority.
Bibliography2 worksM. Gauchie, J. C. recherches sur sa famille et sur lui même, in Revue de musicologie, 2 (1923), p. 42 ff.; id., Les psaumes de J., Liège 193
BIBL.: M. Gauchie, J. C. recherches sur sa famille et sur lui même, in Revue de musicologie, 2 (1923), p. 42 ff.; id., Les psaumes de J., Liège 1930.
Mattei, Silverio. “Jannequin (Janequin), clément.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 563. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/jannequin-janequin-clement.
MLA
Mattei, Silverio. “Jannequin (Janequin), clément.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 563. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/jannequin-janequin-clement.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec7_jannequin_janequin_clement,
author = {Mattei, Silverio},
title = {Jannequin (Janequin), clément},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {563},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/jannequin-janequin-clement}
}
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