Johannes Vavassoris

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• Composer of one motet in 1373 (musical source)
The poems of the top voices of the motet Ferre solet/ Ana theos de gracia/ Ave Maria/ Contratenor/ Solus tenor, uniquely transmitted on remnant folios of a lost manuscript (Douai / Vavassoris Fragments*), carry the acrostich: "Frater Johannes Vavassoris / Anno domini millesimo trecentesimo septuagesimo tercio fecit istum motetum", that is: "Brother Johannes Vavassoris / made this motet in the year of the lord 1373".
• Identification in archival documentation
Several clerics bearing this name and active in those years can be identified in various ecclesiastical archives, but none of them in relation to musical activities. The most convincing candidate is the only one mentionned as a member of a monastic order (corresponding to the title "frater" of the acrostich), described as a friar of the Augustine order, scriptor of the penitential curia, active in Rome, Avignon, in the service of Cardinal Philippe d'Alençon and a canon of several churches in the Low Countries (mentions in LITPA).

Fiala David

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Composer
Monastic Order
Music copyist
Gender

Male

Events

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Musical source

Composer
1373
Douai (France)

Comments: Douai indicated as place of this event even though Douai is only the place where is kept the musical fragment indicating the activity of this composer.

Associated works

1 in database

Ferre solet / Ana theos de gracia / Ave Maria Composer

Associated sources

1 in database

[DIAMM. F-DOU Ms 1105/3, fragment 74.4/1] Douai / Vavassoris Fragments Music copyist

[DIAMM. F-DOU Ms 1105/3, fragment 74.4/1] Douai / Vavassoris Fragments Music copyist

Variant names

Vavasseur

Familial connections

No familial connection.

Bibliography

[LITPA]

2017, Ut per litteras apostolicas… Papal Letters (LITPA), Papal letters Ut per litteras apostolicas (LITPA) https://about.brepolis.net/ut-per-litteras-apostolicas-papal-letters/ (consulté le 20 avril 2024).

[Louviot 2015]

Louviot, M., 2015, Polyphonies religieuses de la fin du XIVe siècle. Étude et transcription. Fragments manuscrits de Douai, ms. 1105/3, fragm. 74.4, Thèse de doctorat soutenue à Tours, 2015.

[Louviot 2021]

Louviot, M., 2021, Uncovering the Douai fragment: composing polyphony and encoding a composer in the late fourteenth century, Early Music History, 40, p. 85‑166 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/early-music-history/article/uncovering-the-douai-fragment-composing-polyphony-and-encoding-a-composer-in-the-late-fourteenth-century/9FD648CCA5F5C15F79406ADF9FB6840D (consulté le 21 décembre 2024).

[Louviot 2024]

Louviot, M., 2024, Encoded Signatures: Devotion and Artistic Self-Presentation in the Motet Ferre solet (1373), dans A.-Z. Rillon-Marne et G. Saint-Cricq (éd.), Composers in the Middle Ages, p. 121‑135 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781805434726-011/html (consulté le 21 décembre 2024).

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Prosopography of Renaissance Singers

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Fiala David - Project manager ; Biography author

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