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Enric Foixer
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Enric Foixer is an alias used in modern reference and discographic contexts for a fifteenth-century singer and composer otherwise known simply as Enrique (also “Enrique de París” and related name-forms), a French musician attached to the musical establishments of the Crown of Aragon in the later fifteenth century. Documentary traces place him in the orbit of Carles de Viana and, after Carles’s death in 1461, among the singers incorporated into the royal chapel of Joan II of Aragon, with a dated notice placing Enric Foixer in that chapel on 3 December 1461. Later notices situate him within the wider royal chapel milieu under Ferdinand and Joan II, and record him as a cleric holding a chaplaincy in Barcelona, where he died in October 1488. His surviving musical footprint is small and is transmitted through major Iberian song manuscripts of the period. Modern worklists associate him with three secular songs—Mi querer tanto vos quiere, Pues con sobra de tristura, and Pues servicio vos desplaze—and at least two of these circulate in key cancionero sources, including the Cancionero de la Colombina (Seville, Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina, MS 7-1-28), a central witness for polyphonic song in late fifteenth-century Spain. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.