Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Aliases: Jacques Clément; Jacob Clemens, Clemanes
Life
Born: c. 1510-15
Died: 1555 or 1556?
Biography
Belgian composer, first noted as "Jacobus Clement Pbro" (a priest) at St. Donatien in Bruges in 1544 and subsequently associated with the court of Charles V and active in Ypres and Leiden. The epithet "non papa" ('not a pope') was added by the publisher Tielman Susato, perhaps more in jest than to avoid actual confusion with Pope Clement VII (1478-1534). Jacobus Vaet published a lament in 1558 alluding to a violent death; a ms. of Hic est vere martyr bears the inscription "Ultimum opus Clementis non Papæ anno 1555 21 aprilis".
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A more extensive survey and worklist is available in French.
List of choral works
Masses
Motets (in 9 principal collections)
Souterliedekens or metrical psalter for 3 voices (Antwerp, 1556–7)
Chansons
Dutch songs
Works not on CPDL
- Missa Gaude lux Donatiane
- Super ripam Jordanis
- Maria Magdalene et altera Maria
- Dum complerentur
Other works not listed above (See Template:CheckMissing for possible reasons and solutions)
- Conserva me Domine
- Domine Jesu Christe
- Domine quando veneris
- In honore beatissimae Annae
- Iustorum animae
- Vox clamantis in deserto
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Publications
Masses
- Missa cum quatuor vocibus tomus I (Leuven, 1556)
- Missa cum quatuor vocibus tomus II (Leuven, 1557)
- Missa cum quatuor vocibus tomus III (Leuven, 1557)
- Missa cum quinque vocibus tomus IIII (Leuven, 1557)
- Missa cum quinque vocibus tomus V (Leuven, 1557)
- Missa cum quinque vocibus tomus VI (Leuven, 1557)
- Missa cum quinque vocibus tomus VII (Leuven, 1558)
- Missa cum quinque vocibus tomus VIII (Leuven, 1559)
- Missa cum sex vocibus tomus IX (Leuven, 1559)
Motets
- Souterliedekens I (Antwerp, 1556)
- Souterliedekens II (Antwerp, 1556)
- Souterliedekens III (Antwerp, 1556)
- Souterliedekens IIII (Antwerp, 1557)
- Secundus liber modulorum (c.1558-1560)
- Liber primus cantionum sacrarum (Leuven, 1559)
- Liber secundus cantionum sacrarum (Leuven, 1559)
- Liber tertius cantionum sacrarum (Leuven, 1559)
- Liber quartus cantionum sacrarum (Leuven, 1559)
- Liber quintus cantionum sacrarum (Leuven, 1559)
- Liber sextus cantionum sacrarum (Leuven, 1559)