Guillaume Faugues (fl. c. 1460–1475) was a French composer of

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Life and career

Very little is known of his life, however, a significant representation of his work survives in the form of five

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settings (a large surviving repertoire for a composer of the time).Grove, Faugues Faugues holds an important place in the history of the

Parody mass A parody mass is a musical setting of the mass, typically from the 16th century, that uses multiple voices of a pre-existing piece of music, such as a fragment of a motet or a secular ''chanson'', as part of its melodic material. It is distinguis ...

because of his use of the technique, particularly in ''Missa Le serviteur''. Faugues was a

chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intellige ...

at Ste Chapelle in

Bourges Bourges ( ; ; ''Borges'' in Berrichon) is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre (Cher), Yèvre. It is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Cher (department), Cher, and also was the capital city of the former provin ...

in 1462–1463, and was also master of the

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s during that year, when he almost certainly met

Johannes Ockeghem Johannes Ockeghem ( – 6 February 1497) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of early Renaissance music. Ockeghem was a significant European composer in the period between Guillaume Du Fay and Josquin des Prez, and he was—with his colle ...

, who was visiting Bourges that year, and also taught Philippe Basiron who was then a choirboy. Faugues is mentioned by two contemporaries:

Loyset Compère Loyset Compère ( – 16 August 1518) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. Of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, he was one of the most significant composers of motets and chansons of that era, and one of the first musicia ...

includes him in his

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''Omnium bonorum plena'' (before 1474), a piece which mentions the composers Compère respected, many of them from

Cambrai Cambrai (, ; ; ), formerly Cambray and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river. A sub-pref ...

Cathedral.Grove, Loyset Compère Faugues was also praised by

Johannes Tinctoris Jehan le Taintenier or Jean Teinturier (Latinised as Johannes Tinctoris; also Jean de Vaerwere; – 1511) was a Renaissance music, Renaissance music theory, music theorist and composer from the Franco-Flemish School, Low Countries. Up to his ...

for his ''varietas'', particularly as demonstrated in his ''Missa "Vinus vina vinum"''. Faugues' works were widely admired during his most active period, and he may have had a strong influence on the works of Johannes Martini.

Works

*''Missa L'homme armé'' (based on

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) *''Missa La basse danse'' (based on a

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) *''Missa Vinus vina vinum'' *''Missa Le serviteur'' *''Missa Je suis en la mer''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Faugues, Guillaume 15th-century births 15th-century deaths French male classical composers French Renaissance composers 15th-century Franco-Flemish composers 15th-century French composers