Valentin de Bournonville

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Valentin de Bournonville (c. 1610 – c. December 1663) was a French Baroque composer and music master active in the middle of the 17th century.

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Biography

Valentin de Bournonville was the son of Jean de Bournonville, and trained by his father in the mastery of the Amiens Cathedral. He was a priest. In 1634 he took over the position of master of the children of the cathedral, succeeding Artus Aux-Cousteaux, who himself had succeeded Jean de Bournonville. In 1643, an act of 23 July shows him depositing his almuce on the desk of the chapter as a sign of obedience, like the other vicars and chaplains of the cathedral. [1] In 1646, when he had two masses published by Robert III Ballard, he is said to be a canon of the church of St. Firmin d'Amiens and master of the children of the cathedral church of that city. He was also endowed with the Vicariate Chapel of Saint-Quentin. [2]

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Valentin de Bournonville then moved to Paris, being appointed on 27 August 1646 as the music master of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, until 20 March 1653, [3] succeeding here François Cosset. On 14 April 1651, the chapter reminded him that during the days of great feast, only a psalm and the magnificat were to be sung in music, and the rest by plain chant only. [4] On 21 September 1651 he had been invited by Pierre Robert, then music master of the Chartres Cathedral, to sing there. [5] On 15 April 1652, he was reprimanded at the time of the Chapter session for not showing enough severity towards the children of the choir and obtaining only insufficient progress. [6] In 1653, the chapter granted him a profit of the Église Saint-Jean-le-Rond de Paris  (fr ).

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He reappeared at Notre-Dame de Paris from October 1663 to the following 1 December, when he was replaced, perhaps because of his death.

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He was also quoted by Annibal Gantez, in 1643: comme un [Jean de] Bournonville qui est mort maistre de la Saincte Chapelle, et qui a laissé son fils aussi vertueux que luy maistre de l'Église d’Amiens. [8]

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He died in Paris in 1663.

Works

Modern edition by Erich Schwandt: Victoria (B.C.), Éditions Jeu, 1981 (Valentin de Bournonville, Complete works).
The only known copy is incomplete at the beginning. Modern edition by Erich Schwandt: Victoria (B.C.), Éditions Jeu, 1981 (Valentin de Bournonville, Complete works).

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References

  1. ↑ AD Somme : G 1009.
  2. ↑ Durand 1920 p. 103.
  3. ↑ Yvon-Briant 1949 p. 322.
  4. ↑ Paris AN : LL 297 p. 140, quoted after Chartier 1897 p. 110.
  5. ↑ AD Eure-et-Loir : G. 340, Br., H. p. 29, quoted after Clerval 1898 p. 84.
  6. ↑ Paris AN : LL 232 exp 40, quoted after Yvon-Briant 1949 p. 104.
  7. ↑ Clerval 1898 p. 84.
  8. ↑ See Gantez 1643, Lettre XVIII.
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