Jean Richafort
Aliases: Richauffort, Rycefort, Ricartsvorde
Life
Born: c. 1480
Died: after 1550
Biography Richafort began his career in Mechelin in 1507 but seems to have had ties to Hainault or Liege; he joined the French royal court and traveled extensively, working at Bologna in 1517. before settling in Bruges. Pierre de Ronsard is the source for his having been a student of Josquin, to whom his Requiem is dedicated. A Joachim Richafort, employed by Queen Mary of Hungary from 1532 to 1543 and settled in Bruges by 1546 has caused some confusion; Jean was employed at St Gilles in Bruges 1543-4 and 1548-50.
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List of choral works
- Missa ‘O genitrix’, 4vv, (on Compère’s motet)
- Missa ‘Veni sponsa Christi’, 4vv (on his own motet)
- Requiem mass, 6vv
- {{NoCo|Christus resurgens
- Ecce quam bonum
- Emendemus in melius
- Quem dicunt homines
- Salve Regina
- Veni electa mea
Chansons
- Cuidez vous que Dieu nous faille, a 5
- D’Amours je suis desheritée, a 5
- De mon triste et desplaisir, a 4
- En revenant du bois, a 3
- Gentilz gallans, a 3
- Hors de plaisir, a 4
- Il n’est sy doulce vie, a 4
- J’ay veu que souloye, a 3
- Je fus l’autrier, a 3
- Je veulx laysser melancolie, a 4
- L’amour de moy, a 3
- Le temps qui court, a 4
- Navez point veu a 3
- Ne vous chaille a 5
- Qui est celuy, a 3
- Sur tous regretz, a 4
- Sy je m’y plain, a 5
- Tru tru trut avant, il fault boire a 3
Misattributed
- La rousée du moys de may (Adrian Willaert)
- N’as tu point veu la viscontine a 3 (Adrian Willaert)
- N’as tu point veu la viscontine a 4 (atypical)
- Or, vray Dieu, qu’il est enuye (Crequillon?)
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Publications
With one posthumous exception Richafort's work was printed in anthologies.
- Joannis Richafort modulorum quatuor quinque & sex vocum, liber primus (1556, Le Roy & Ballard)
External links
- Works by Jean Richafort in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)