Guillaume Bouzignac

Guillaume Bouzignac (Born towards 1587 in Languedoc and died towards 1643) is a Master of music and Compositeur baroque.

Biography

Born towards 1587 in Languedoc, it is originating in Saint-Nazaire-with Aude. He studied with the Saint-Just cathedral of Narbonne until in 1604, after which he carried out a life of making waves choirmaster. He goes then to the cathedral of Angouleme, and in 1634, the superior will make of it even the praise in a letter with Marin Mersenne. In 1608 it returned in Languedoc to pay its debts, then in 1609, he became Master of music in collegial the Saint-Andrew with Grenoble, but remains only three months there and then seems to have left France.

In 1624, he was Master of music to the cathedral of Bourges, where it was ordered priest. There in 1625, it made a stay with Paris while hoping to make some fortune, and leaves Bourges in 1626. Perhaps in 1628, it served Henry, the Duc of Montmorency and governor of Languedoc, service to which its Motets celebrating would be attached the fall of La Rochelle. Of 1629 with 1632, he was Master of music to the cathedral of Rodez. Perhaps it went to Tours in 1641. In 1643 he was Master of the children of chorus to the cathedral of Clermont-Ferrand.

Nothing of its music was printed, and it is preserved in two manuscripts. Its voyages in Spain (especially in Catalonia) and in Italy inspired much its music (of style baroque), and he was appreciated many people (inter alia Mersenne, Gantez and Dom Jacques the Clerk, prior with Vendôme, author in 1665 of a treaty remained handwritten). At 57 years, Guillaume Bouzignac was greeted by the unanimous critic like one of the most talented type-setters of his generation.

Works and interrogations

Its work: a Te Deum. The Bouzignac enigma of the XVIIe French century: Did Guillaume Bouzignac impregnate innovations coming from the Iberian peninsula, it influenced the development of the oratorio of Carissimi, it wanted to be used as esthetic model with the later generations or it simply regarded himself as a craftsman having to educate the faithful ones?

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