Denis Macé
Denis Macé
Genres: french, 17th century
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About Denis Macé
Denis Macé [Massé] was a French musician and composer, born around 1600 and died before June 1663, active in Paris in the middle of the 17th century. He is known as a master of music and composed mostly spiritual or secular music. He is the son of Ja[cques?] Macé. Bourgeois of Paris, then residing in the rue and parish of Saint-Pierre-aux-Bœufs , he married on 26 November 1629 Geneviève de Hellan [Hélan, Helen, Hellen], daughter of Jean Hélan exempt from the king's guards. The couple has at least seven children: two boys and five girls, at least one of whom dies young; they were baptized between August 22, 1630 andDecember 1 , 1648, still in Saint-Pierre-aux-Bœufs. The couple seems to have enjoyed a relative ease, since on January 19, 1635, we see Denis Macé and Claude Darbonnet renting a house located rue des Vieux-Augustins to a master wheelwright-coachbuilder for 524 [tournament pounds|lt] per year; in April 1647 his wife and sister-in-law Catherine Hélan had masonry works appraised for a house in the same street (probably the same). On March 4, 1648, Catherine donated to her sister Geneviève all the property that would belong to her at the time of her death, and in particular this house in rue des Vieux-Augustins; we then learn that the couple Macé-Hélan then lived rue des Marmousets, located on the Île de la Cité, still in the same parish. On June 6, 1663, Geneviève Macé was already a widow when she filed a declaration relating to this house. In 1680 and 1681, three acts reveal that the couple had then two living children: Pierre the eldest, lawyer in the Parliament of Paris and married without the consent of his mother, and Geneviève, already widow of François Sassin, also lawyer in the Parliament. Throughout his career, Macé is cited only as a master of music (more likely of singing or lute than of composition). In 1643, he is famous enough to be mentioned at the end of Letter XXII of Annibal Gantez 's Interview of the Musicians: If you want to know more, consult Messrs Vincens, Metru & Massé who are the three most famous & starving masters of Paris, & don't think I'm making fun, since the first was master of Monsieur d'Angoulême, the second of the Jesu Fathers & the last of Monsieur le Chancellor . Indeed, Macé seems to have spent his entire career under the protection of Chancellor Pierre Séguier. The airs of 1634 are dedicated to the brother of Chancellor Séguier, the hymns of 1639 are dedicated to his daughter Charlotte, and the treatise of 1652 to the husband of a niece of Séguier. A testimony gives us that in 1639 one of the hymns was sung in the Hôtel de Séguier. As for the texts of the hymns, they came from Irénée d'Eu , a member of the Third Order of Saint-François and confessor to the chancellor. Among Macé's students, the Chancellor is the only one who is identified (by Gantez); we can assume that he also taught music to his daughter Charlotte. He neighbored there with Charles Richard, an organist attached to the Séguier house.
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