In the catalogue by Brossard from 1724 (also online at Gallica) we find
exactly this thoughts.
As far as I can understand - my French is very poor - Brossard writes
about this tombeaux (page 379, II°), that it could be on the death of
Mesangeau or it could be written by him.
Brossard, who collected and probably wrote these pieces, says, that he
personally beliefs, it is a Tombeau by Mesangeau.
Not any proof, but I think this enforces the possibility to understand
it either way.
Best regards
Markus
Am 21.04.2014 12:11, schrieb Mathias Rösel:
Not only did Mesangeau use this tuning a lot. This piece has many
stylistic traits
characteristic of him.
I suggest he could well have been the composer. Otherwise someone else has
deliberately cited from his work. Anyway Tombeau de Mesangeau might mean
Tombeau by Mesangeau as well as Tombeau for Mesangeau. If my suggestion is
right, this tombeau would predate the one composed by Ennemond Gaultier.
Lex
Would be funny, though. Correct me if I'm wrong, I was thinking that
tombeaux in the 17th century were composed for real deceased persons, and
not just like that as a stylistic exercise like in the 20th/21st centuries.
Unless it be clear for whom this tombeau was penned other than for late
Mesangeau, I'd assume it was written at the occasion of Mesangeau's obituary
by someone else.
Mathias
according to Peter's wonderful database, 3 have been found:
F-Pn ms. Vm7 6211, 31v
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52503776m/f66.image
That's a different piece, in one of the transistor tunings :-) May be
BY Mezangeau.
That is the flat tuning, (like Lester) which Mesangeau did use a lot.
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