Matthias Werrecore

compositeur belge

Hermann Matthias Werrecore (village de Warcoing, Pecq, env. 1500 - après 1574) est un compositeur franco-flamand de la Renaissance ayant vécu en Italie[1].

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Le , il prend le poste de maître de chapelle de la cathédrale de Milan, laissé vacant par le décès du musicien et théoricien de la musique italien Franchini Gaffurio. Il occupe cette position[2], où il a la charge de onze chanteurs adultes et de sept jeunes choristes garçons, jusqu'en 1550[3].

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Sa pièce la plus connue est La Bataglia Taliana pour quatre voix, publiée à l'origine avec le titre allemand Die Schlacht vor Pavia (1544), rééditée comme La Bataglia Taliana con alcune villotte piacevole (Venise, Gardane, 1549)[4],[5],[6]. Il s'agit de l'évocation de la bataille de Pavie de 1525.

Ses compositions sacrées survivantes sont rassemblées dans le cahier Cantuum quinque vocum (quos motetta vocant) Hermanni Matthiae Werrecorensis musici excelentissimi, liber primus (1559)[7] dédié à Antonius Marinus Pansanus[8], ainsi que quelques autres pièces trouvées dans des collections et manuscrits.

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  1. Studi di storia dell'arte in onore di Maria Luisa Gatti Perer - Page 253 Maria Luisa Gatti Perer, Marco Rossi, Alessandro Rovetta - 1999 -".. e C. GETZ, Hermann Matthias Werrecore and the North Italian Circle of Liberal Humanists in Counter-Reformation Italy, «Arte Lombarda», 118(1996), 3, p. 15-25
  2. Christine Suzanne Getz - Music In The Collective Experience In Sixteenth-Century Milan Page 81 2005 "Hermann Matthias Werrecore, 1522-1550 Following the death of Gaffurius on 25 June 1522, the Flemish composer Hermann Matthias Werrecore was appointed maestro di cappella. Aside from the fact that he was residing in the city, nothing..."
  3. Frank A. D'Accone - The Civic Muse: Music and Musicians in Siena During the Middle... Page 310 1997 "In 1522, when the Flemish composer Hermann Matthias Werrecore assumed the maestro di cappellas post in Milan, the group comprised eleven adult singers and seven boys. Their numbers fluctuated between eleven and fourteen adults and..."
  4. John Dowland - Page 138 Diana Poulton - 1982 "These were 'La Guerre' or 'La Bataille' by Jannequin, written to commemorate the Battle of Marignano in 1515, first printed in 1529, and 'Die Schlacht vor Pavia' or 'La Battaglia Taliana' by Matthias Werrecore, first printed in 1544"
  5. Comedy in Music: A Historical Bibliographical Resource Guide - Page 25 Enrique Alberto Arias - 2001 "Matthias Werrecore's Battaglia taliana (W98) vividly imitates the sounds of horses running and cannons firing."
  6. Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V: The Capilla Flamenca... - Page 174 Mary Tiffany Ferer - 2012 32 Pier Paolo Scattolin, 'Werrecore, Matthias Hermann', NG2. Ignace Bossuyt, 'Introduction', in Mathias Werrecore, La Bataglia Taliana, facsimile édition (Peer, 1987), p. 5–13, at p. 9, 12, suggests that Werrecore's work may have been...
  7. Music Publications - Page 3 A-R Editions, Inc. "Hermann Matthias Werrecore: Cantuum quinque vocum quos motetta vocant . . . liber primus (1559) Edited by Christine... (2008) $108.00 Hermann Matthias Werrecore served as the maestro di cappella at the Duomo of Milan from 1522 until..."
  8. Cui Dono Lepidum Novum Libellum?: Dedicating Latin Works and... - Page 75 Ignace Bossuyt, Academia Belgica (Rome, Italy) - 2008 "Matthias Werrecore for example, declares that, when people will see that the dedicatee Antonius Marinus Pansanus often enjoys this music to take his mind off various worries, they too will take these partbooks in hand."

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