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[extrait de:] Frank DOBBINS: 'Mauduit, Jacques', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 11 June 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
"Mauduit, Jacques
(b Paris, 16 Sept 1557; d Paris, 21 Aug 1627). French composer. Of aristocratic origin, he was schooled in the humanities and philosophy, travelled widely, and avidly studied Italian, Spanish and other European languages. […] An unambitious devoted friend, gentle, pious, sober in nature, he avoided courtly intrigue in his post as royal secretary and registrar in the judiciary (which he inherited from his father). […]
In the 1581 St Cecilia’s Day competition at Evreux Mauduit won the motet prize with his five-voice Afferte Domine. At about the same time he succeeded Courville as Baïf’s main collaborator in the work of the Académie on musique mesurée à l’antique. […]
Mauduit had a fine ear and became the leading French conductor of his time, organizing concerts ‘composed of voices and all sorts of harmonic instruments’[…] Many of these concerts were on a grand scale and no doubt emulated the latest instrumental and polychoral fashions of Italy. Mauduit exploited and developed the principle of variety in performance, combining choir and orchestra with instruments grouped by family. […] As well as organizing the Académie’s musical functions (some of which in later years were held at his own home) he managed the St Cecilia’s Day festivities at Notre Dame. In 1614 his ode mesurée marking Louis XIII’s return to Paris from Brittany was performed by about 135 singers, lutenists and viol players, and in 1617 the ballet La délivrance de Renaud, composed in collaboration with Guédron, Boësset and Bataille, was given by 92 singers and 45 instrumentalists under his direction."
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J.-M. Warszawski: "Il dirige les fêtes de la Sainte-Cécile de Notre-Dame de Paris et des ballets de cour sous Henri IV et Louis XIII."
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