Noé Faignient

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Noé Faignient (born around 1537 possibly in Cambrai; died around 1578 in Antwerp) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. It was not until 1992 that an Antwerp "certificaat" from the 17th February 1576, in which Noé Faignient is mentioned in the following way: "Noel Faeynient, sangmeester alhier, woonende by de Nyeuwe Borsse alhier, oudt omtrement XXXIX jaren" (thus 1576 about 39 years old), which results in the approximate year of The composer got citizenship in Antwerp in 1561; this document talks about "Noe Menestriers, son of Bastien, born to Cambrai, musician". The mentioned Certificaat also confirms the statement of Pierre François Sweerts (Franciscus Swertius) in the publication Athenae belgicae (Antwerp 1628) that Faignient acted as a music teacher in Antwerp: "Antverpiae aliquot annos iuventutem musicam Only a few more details about the composer's curriculum vitae are known. Three children of the Faignient family were baptized in the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Antwerp, in 1561, 1575 and 1577. In 1566, the collection of poems "Suite du Labeur en liesse" was published in the same city, which contains a sonnet with admonishing content by the poet Guillaume de Poetou (c. 1528-1567/68), addressed directly to Noé Faignient. The Antwerp archival documents also provide indirect information about Faignient's death. The composer's fourth child was born on the 18th. December 1577 christened during his father's lifetime in Antwerp Cathedral, and in another document of t

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