Gautier d'Espinal
Gautier d'Espinal (also d'Epinal, d’Épinal or d'Espinau) (died before July 1272)[1] was a French composer and trouvère poet of the 13th century.
Grove states that while details of his life are lacking, some documents of the time mention a Gautier d'Espinal active between 1232 and 1272, but it is uncertain if this is the trouvère, as some of the songs attributed to him suggest an earlier date. Most likely Gautier was one of the seigneurs of the city of Epinal.[1] However, Robert Lug's more recent (2007) study of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés chansonnier (Trouvère MS U) shows that Gautier is not the person in the mentions cited by Grove, but was in fact a cleric, a nephew of the bishop of Metz. As Gautier's songs are contained in the oldest part of Trouvère MS U, they must have been composed before 1231–32.[2]
His work was popular and widely distributed, with some of his compositions appearing in more than six separate source documents. Fourteen songs survive with reliable attribution to Gautier; eleven of them include music.[1]
Works
- Aïmans fins et verais
- Ja pour longue demouree
- Ne puet laissier fins cuers c'adès se plaigne
- Partis de doulour
- Se j'ai lonc tens amours servi
- Se par force de merci
- Tout autresi com l'äimans deçoit
- Tout esforciés avrai chanté souvent
- Quant je voi l'erbe menue
- Desconfortés et de joie parti
- Puis qu'en moi a recouvré seignourie
- Outrecuidiers et ma fole pensee
- Par son dous comandement (attributed)
- Commencement de douce saison bele (attributed)
- Amours et bone volenté
- Quant voi iver et froidure aparoir.[1][3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 .Theodore Karp, "Gautier d'Espinal". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/10765 (accessed 24 December 2011).
- ↑ The reference to Lug's Der Chansonnier de Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Das älteste volkssprachige Liederbuch Europas. Melodien, Notation, Entstehung, politisches Umfeld. 4 volumes, Frankfurt (Peter Lang) 2007 is found in the entry for Gautier d'Epinal in the French language version of Wikipedia. However, it cannot be verified; Lug's own website notes this work as still in preparation; see publication list here
- ↑ Stephen Eddins. "Gautier d'Épinal: Remembrance". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 December 2011.