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Biography
Jacobus de Kerle (Ypres 1531/1532 - Prague 7 January 1591) was a Flanders|Flemish composer and organist of the late Renaissance music|Renaissance .
Life
De Kerle was trained at the monastery of St. Martin in Ypres , and held positions as a singer in Cambrai and choirmaster in Orvieto , where he also became organist and carillon neur. After entering the priesthood, he began having his music printed, including a 1561 collection of psalm s and Magnificat settings in Venice . He was commissioned to write Preces Speciales set to texts by the Dominican Pedro de Soto for the Council of Trent , which he completed by 1562, and visited the city during the time of the Council in his travels with Otto Truchsess von Waldburg , cardinal of Augsburg. Although he did not take part in their discussions, the performance of the Preces Speciales reportedly influenced the deliberations of the Council Fathers on sacred music.Patrick Bergin Jr. (2009). http://www.osomjournal.org/issues/2/bergin.html#text17 Preces speciales: Prototype of Tridentine Musical Reform, OSOM Volume 2.
In 1565, he was appointed director of music at Ypres Cathedral, though he would lose this position after being excommunication|excommunicated in 1567 due to a dispute with another priest. From there he moved to Rome and then to Augsburg , where he was offered a position in 1568 as vicar-choral and organist at the Augsburg Cathedral by Cardinal Otto Truchsess von Waldburg. He stayed there until 1574, when was passed over for the open Kapellmeister position at Augsburg. After leaving Augsburg in 1575, his whereabouts are unknown until 1579, when he appears in the registers of the Cambrai Cathedral; he continued to move often late in his life, accepting positions in Mons , Cologne , Augsburg again, Vienna , and finally Prague , where he lived from 1583 until his death in 1591.
Works
All of de Kerle's extant music is vocal polyphony, and it combines the stylistic elements of the Franco-Flemish school of the generation after Josquin (exemplified by composers such as Adrian Willaert and Nicolas Gombert ) with that of late Renaissance Italian composers such as Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina|Palestrina . De Kerle did not make as much use of simple homophony and direct text-setting as did many of his post- Council of Trent|Tridentine contemporaries, such as Palestrina and Vincenzo Ruffo , nor did he often employ the heavy chromaticism of the late 16th-century madrigal (music)|madrigal , and his compositions display a measure of restraint and clarity that mark them as heavily indebted to Northern counterpoint|contrapuntal practice.
His surviving works include mass (music)|mass es for four and five voices (he is known to have composed six-voice masses, but these have been lost), motet s, psalm s, hymn s, and sacred songs. Very little of his secular vocal music has survived; a print of madrigals and one of settings of Petrarch are both lost, though one book of six-voice secular songs is extant, as well as a number of pieces in surviving print and manuscript collections.
References
Brennecke, Wilfred. "Kerle, Jacobus de". Grove Online . Accessed May 5, 2007.
Leitmeir, Christian Thomas. http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx? prod_id=IS-9782503515953-1 "Jacobus de Kerle (1531/32-1591): Komponieren im Brennpunkt von Kirche und Kunst" (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009)(= Collection Épitome musical, 11)
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Recording
Kerle, Jacobus de. Vocal music. Paul Van Nevel / Huelgas Ensemble . Harmonia Mundi 901866
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