Jean Maillard

Alias: Jean Maillart

Life

Born: c. 1515?

Died: after 1570

Biography

Jean Maillard is first attested in the Prologue to book 4 of Rabelais’ Pantagruel (1548) and his birth can only be guessed at from a middle aged portrait printed in 1565. A handful of chansons spirituelles and a dedication with a plea to Catharine de Medici for the return of banished and hidden graces hint at Huguenot sympathies, and his name disappears from new publications after 1571.

He was evidently famous during his time, and many of his motets were used as source material for parody masses by composers as distinguished as Palestrina, Lassus, and Claude Goudimel. 6 of Maillard's masses have survived, and 2 others are known to have been lost. Considerable other music of his has survived in printed editions, including 86 motets, settings of the Magnificat, lamentations, chansons spirituelles, and secular chansons. His Missa pro mortuis was an early Requiem mass, and one of the only examples from France in the 16th century.

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List of choral works

Sacred music Sacred works Ascendo ad patrem meum Cantantibus organis De fructu vitae Dignare me laudare te Domine Jesu Christe, pastor bone Domine salvum fac Gaudent in caelis Iam non dicam vos servos In me transierunt Missa Je suis déshéritée Missa M'amie un jour Non turbetur cor vestrum Omnes gentes attendite Praeparate corda vestra Puer natus est nobis Tulerunt dominum meum Secular works Amour se doibt Au feu, au feu De ceux qui tant De tant aimer Du corps absent Du mal que iay Un forgeron Margot un jour, étant à ses ébats O combien ie suis Puisque d'amour recoys election Si ie cuidois pour gémir Si la promesse Si mon vouloir Tout au rebours Un amoureux découcher eut envie Other works not listed above (See Template:CheckMissing for possible reasons and solutions) Omnes gentes attendite Click here to search for this composer on CPDL Publications Masses Missa ‘Ego sum qui sum’, 4vv, 1553¹ Missa ‘Je suis desheritée’, 4vv, 1553¹ Missa Virginis Mariae, 5vv (Paris, 1557) Missa ‘M’amie un jour’, 4vv (Paris, 1558, 2/1559) Missa pro mortuis, 4vv, Missa pro vivis, 4vv, Motets Moteta quatuor, quinque, et sex vocum liber primus (Paris, 1555) [37] Modulorum … primum volumen, 4–7vv (Paris, 1565) [25] Modulorum … secundum volumen, 4–6vv (Paris, 1565) Credo, 8vv (Paris, 1557) 2 Magnificat, 2nd and 4th tones, 4vv, 15578 Te aeternum patrem (Te Deum), 4vv, 15647 External links Works by Jean Maillard in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)