François de Chancy
François de Chancy (1600 – 1656) was a French singer lutenist and composer. He was a master of music for Cardinal Richelieu in 1631, master of chamber music (1635) and was chamber musician of the King's Chapel (1649). Highly regarded by Mersenne, who included Chancy pieces in his treatises.
François de Chancy
Robert III Ballard, imprimeur. · München BSB · Public domain
- Born
- 1600
- Died
- 1656 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- singer · choreographer · composer · lutenist · musician
- Fields
- singing · music · plucked instrument playing
- Movements
- classical music · Baroque music
- Languages
- French
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François de Chancy (1600 – 1656) was a French singer lutenist and composer. He was a master of music for Cardinal Richelieu in 1631, master of chamber music (1635) and was chamber musician of the King's Chapel (1649). Highly regarded by Mersenne, who included Chancy pieces in his treatises.
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1600
François de Chancy born.
1656
François de Chancy died at Paris.
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He died in Paris in his mid-fifties. He participated and collaborated on vocal music of the following ballets de cour: • Ballet de la prospérité des armes de France, 1641 • Ballet du dérèglement des passions, 1648 • Ballet des fêtes de Bacchus, 1651
He was noted in following publications: • Tablature de mandore (pub. 1629) in Paris with Ballard • 12 lute pieces in Tablature de luth de différents auteurs sur des accords nouveaux, (pub. 1631) • two books of Airs de cour à 4 parties (pub. 1635, 1644), the 1st and 2nd Livre d'Équivoques (pub. 1640, 1647) and 3rd, 4th and 5th Livre de chansons (pub. 1649, 1651, 1655). The other airs and tablatures are included in books of Chansons pour danser et pour boire (Paris: Ballard, 1660) and of Mss. M. Mersenne, in L'Harmonie universelle, in two German books (tablature for lute and tablature for mandore).
Title page of François de Chancy Tablature de Mandore, 1629.
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- 1.Probablement Prenois près de Dijon. Cf. Écorcheville 1907 p. 25. Le nom Chancy est commun dans l’Yonne et en Bourgogne
- 2.Mémoires de Pierre de la Porte, premier valet de chambre de Louis XIV, contenant plusieurs particularités des règnes de Louis XIII et Louis XIV. Genève, 1755, p. 92.
- 3.Dans les Harmonicorum instrumentorum libri IV de 1635/1636, p. 26.
- 4.Paris AN : MC/ET/XLV/181. Acte copié dans Z1A 473, année 1644 (cour des Aides).
- 5.Herluison 1876 p. 9.
- 6.Le « petit coucher » est l’intervalle de temps entre le bonsoir que le roi donne à toutes les personnes de la Cour présentes, et le moment où il se couche effectivement, pendant lequel il demeure avec les officiers les plus nécessaires de sa chambre, ou avec ceux qui ont un privilège particulier pour y rester (Dictionnaire de Trévoux, 1743).
- 7.D’après Herluison, le même registre de l’église Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois le disait en 1655 « conducteur du lit de chasse du roi ». Celui-ci dépendait de l’administration des Menus-Plaisirs du roi.
- 8.Paris AN : MC/ET/XLV/205, cité dans Massip 1976 p. 98.
- 9.Paris AN : Y//247, f. 257r.
- 10.Préface des Livres de la voix et des chants, f. a4v.
- 11.Livre sixième de l’art de bien chanter, p. 363.
- 12.Gazette de France, 1635, p. 90.
- 13.RISM 1632 , Guillo 2003 n° 1632-C.
- 14.Vaast 2010 p. 261.
- 15.Mersenne publie aussi f. 94v une allemande extraite de la Tablature de mandore de 1629.
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