Peter Philips
Peter Philips is a Compositeur and clavierist - Virginal ist and Organiste - born between on August 5th 1560 and on August 4th 1561, probably with London, and deceased with Brussels in 1628.
Biography
Its first composition known, Pavana for keyboard gone back to 1580 (probably the only one that it composed on its native ground), were extremely popular, in particular thanks to arrangements that other musicians made some, among whom Morley, Dowland and Sweelinck.
At the beginning of August 1582, Philips flees England “ for the catholic foy ”. It arrives in October at Rome where it is accommodated with the English College. After a few days of rest, Philips is engaged by the Cardinal Alessandro Farnese with the service of which it remains during three years. In same time, swift Philips as organist with the College.
In February 1585, Lord Thomas Paget, celebrates English aristocrat, taken refuge roman catholic also, arrives to him at the College. Philips enters to its service, and leaves with him in March; they travel during five years, visiting successively Genoa in September 1585, Madrid in October of the same year, and the France in September 1586. They spend the year 1587 and first half of the following year to Paris, with share a short stay with Brussels in March 1588.
At June 1588, Paget and Philips arrive at Antwerp, and in February 1589, they settle in Brussels. Lord Paget dies one year later; Philips settles then in Antwerp. At that time, it painfully earned its living while learning how to the children to play of the Virginal.
In 1593, it goes to Amsterdam, most probably to meet Sweelinck, another large clavierist and type-setter of the time. During its return voyage, Philips falls ill and remains during three weeks with Middelburg to rest there. An English compatriot, Roger Walton, benefitted from it to denounce Philips with the Dutch authorities, showing it to be accessory to a plot against the life of the Reine Elizabeth. Walton, Philips and another defendant, Robert Pooley, were stopped and led to $the Hague there to be questioned and await the report/ratio of London. In prison, Philips composed the Pavane & Gaillarde Dolorosa . The investigation bleaches Philips, which was slackened and joined Antwerp.
In 1597, the Archiduc Albert admits Philips like member of his House. The following year, it makes publish a Book of Madrigaux with eight vote.
A few years later, Philips starts to compose of the crowned Musique, whose first examples are three Motet S published in an anthology with Munich in 1609. Four years later, Phalèse prints the first large collection of sacred music of Philips, the 69 Cantiones sacrae pro praecipuis festis totius ass and commini sanctorum with five votes. In 1613, two other series are published, the 30 Cantiones sacrae for eight vote and all 31 motets with two or three parts with Continuo, the Gemmulae sacrae . Another series of motets with two and three votes with continuo, the Deliciae sacrae dedicated to Albert and Isabelle, follows in 1616.
In Brussels, Philips enjoys the presence of excellent colleagues to the royal vault, from of which John Bull, been able from England in 1613 in order to escape a lawsuit for adultery. Previously, Philips met almost certainly another very famous musician, Frescobaldi, at the time of the stay that this one carries out in Brussels in 1607 - 08.
The last publication of Philips includes/understands 106 motets for one, two and three votes, all with continuo. Peter Philips was rather famous of alive sound so that its music penetrated until Lisbon and Stockholm.
Moreover, it is obviously not by chance if, when Jan Bruegel de Velours painted “Hearing”, it represented, well in obviousness, a partition of madrigaux with 6 votes of “ Pietro Philippi, Inglese ”.
Musical work
The work of Peter Philips is divided into two main categories, which correspond to two times of its career: instrumental work and vocal work .
Instrumental music
Instrumental work is made up between 1580 and 1605. They consists of musics for instrumental keyboard and together - forty works.
Principal works for keyboard
Its work for keyboard - whose majority of the parts finds in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book - comprises itself two parts, corresponding perhaps also to two different periods:
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- initially dances - especially of the Pavane S and the Strong S - and the Imagination S, whose composition is between 1580 and 1593;
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- then, the intabulations , i.e. arrangements for keyboard of vocal works, whose dates of composition extend from 1595 with 1605.
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Pavana (1580)
- Galliardo 1580
- Three Fantasie (1582 for one of them)
- Pavana & Galiarda Pagget * Passamezzo Pavana & Galiarda (1592)
- Pavana Doloroso & Galiarda Dolorosa (1593)
- “the Nightingale” (1595), “Good Day my Heart” (1602) & “Margott Laborez” (1605), arrangements of French songs of Roland de Lassus
- “Amarilli” (1603) arrangement of a vocal part of Caccini
- “Chi will fara fede Al Cielo” C 1605, arrangement of a vocal part of Striggio
- “Tirsi, Freno, Cosi moriro” C 1605, arrangement of a vocal work of Marenzio
- “Deposits da voi” C 1605, arrangement of one of its clean madrigaux going back to 1596.
Philips, English of birth, were a European musician and, if it should be counted with the number of the “English” virginalists, it was English of all. Indeed, on the one hand, it garnered various influences at the time of its stays and voyages, influences which are reflected partially in its music, on the other hand, it was the only English virginalist to compose works as many according to the technique of the will intavolatura .
Music for keyboard: Partial discography
- Hake Booth, SBCD 992
- Emer Buckley, Harmonia Mundi, HMC 901263
- Paul Nicholson, Hyperion HALF-VALUE LAYER 66734
- Siegbert Crawls, MD+G 341 1257-2
- Anneke Uittenbosch, Etcetera, etc 1022
Vocal music profanes and crowned
Crowned vocal work, written 1609 with 1628, account several hundreds of works. Only large the William Byrd composed some more than Philips.
The vocal work profanes, which counts mainly approximately 50 madrigaux, was made up between 1596 and 1603.