Dufay en Allemagne
Instrumentation: voice, organetto, recorder, lute, vielle
This program is available with the participation of french musician Julien Ferrando, clavicytherium.
Santenay contrasts German works from the Lochhamer Liederbuch, composed around the 1450’s, with the contemporarily composed French chansons of Gilles Binchois and Guillaume Dufay. These two composers were both born around 1400, became musicians, composers and clerics, and stood at the high point of their careers in the service of art admirers and friends of music at the leading courts of Europe.
Binchois was a member of the Burgundian court chapel of Philip III, under whose rule Burgundy experienced a period of cultural blooming. Dufay was a member of the papal chapel in Rome and Florence and was later employed by the Family d'Este in Ferrara, who counted as one of the most important supporters of the arts of the fifteenth century.
The Lochhamer Liederbuch is one of the most important existing German documents of the fifteenth century. In it, and in its sister document, the Buxheimer Orgelbuch, there are contrafacts of chansons of Dufay and Binchois together with songs composed in German-speaking regions.
Buxheimer Orgelbuch
München: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Lim. 3523, fol. 77v-78
