Jean Maillard

Aliases: 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

Amour se doibt Ascendo ad patrem meum Au feu, au feu Cantantibus organis De ceux qui tant De fructu vitae De tant aimer Dignare me laudare te Domine Jesu Christe, pastor bone Domine salvum fac Du corps absent Du mal que iay Un forgeron Gaudent in caelis Iam non dicam vos servos

In me transierunt Missa Je suis déshéritée Missa M'amie un jour Non turbetur cor vestrum O combien ie suis Praeparate corda vestra Puer natus est nobis Puisque d'amour recoys election Si ie cuidois pour gémir Si la promesse Si mon vouloir Tout au rebours Tulerunt dominum meum Un amoureux découcher eut envie

 
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Publications

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

• [20] Moteta, 4–6vv (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)