Noé Faignient
Noé Faignient - Franco-Flemish Renaissance polyphonist
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Genres: franco-flemish, 16th century
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About Noé Faignient
Noé Faignient (born around 1537 possibly in Cambrai; died around 1578 in Antwerp) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. It was not until 1992 that an Antwerp "certificaat" from the 17th February 1576, in which Noé Faignient is mentioned in the following way: "Noel Faeynient, sangmeester alhier, woonende by de Nyeuwe Borsse alhier, oudt omtrement XXXIX jaren" (thus 1576 about 39 years old), which results in the approximate year of The composer got citizenship in Antwerp in 1561; this document talks about "Noe Menestriers, son of Bastien, born to Cambrai, musician". The mentioned Certificaat also confirms the statement of Pierre François Sweerts (Franciscus Swertius) in the publication Athenae belgicae (Antwerp 1628) that Faignient acted as a music teacher in Antwerp: "Antverpiae aliquot annos iuventutem musicam Only a few more details about the composer's curriculum vitae are known. Three children of the Faignient family were baptized in the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Antwerp, in 1561, 1575 and 1577. In 1566, the collection of poems "Suite du Labeur en liesse" was published in the same city, which contains a sonnet with admonishing content by the poet Guillaume de Poetou (c. 1528-1567/68), addressed directly to Noé Faignient. The Antwerp archival documents also provide indirect information about Faignient's death. The composer's fourth child was born on the 18th. December 1577 christened during his father's lifetime in Antwerp Cathedral, and in another document of the 20th century. In December 1578, his second wife Anna Oldenhoff is called a widow; thus Faignient died between December 1577 and December 1578. An earlier statement (Albert Smijers 1946) that Faignient served as the singing master of Duke Erich II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg from 1580 to 1581 thus proves to be incorrect. In 1568, the widow of publisher Jean de Laet published a collection of four- to six-part compositions by Faignient, dedicated to the Spanish merchant Gonzalo García. In the dedication, the composer calls these pieces "les Premiers fruitz de mon Jardinet" (the first fruits of my fermentation); in them polyphonic and homophone passages alternate. The chansons of Noé Faignient are about secular and spiritual love. Among these works, "L'Homme qui n'est point amoureux" has become particularly well known. Faignient later gave the piece a Dutch text ("Musica aldersoetste konst"; well into the 17th century. century, this song has been very popular. The Flemish song "O Hemelsche vader" stands out especially for its shape, because it is divided into two parts according to the pattern of contemporary motets. The homage motet "Insignis virtute" is dedicated to Count Peter Ernst von Mansfeld (around 1580-1626), who played an important role in Dutch history. There is another collection of three-part pieces by Noé Faignient, also published in 1568, of which the original is lost. However, there is a copy entitled "Chansons, madrigales et motets par Noé Faignient 1568" in the Swedish city of Linköping. In this collection is the chanson "Las voulez vous", which is very close to the play of the same name by Orlando di Lasso. Other compositions in this collection are also close to the work of di Lasso because of the art of pictorial and affective word expression, which may have led Johann Gottfried Walther in his "Musical Lexicon" of 1732 to call Faignient a "Simia Orlandi" (Affe Orlandos). In addition, Faignient's work has become known above all through numerous printed collections that were published between 1569 and about 1650, including arrangements for organs and lutes.
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