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1Van der Straeten also states that in the Poemata of François Haemus published at Antwerp, 1578, is an elegy on the death of Jacques Vasius, first Kapellmeister to the Emperor Maximilian, doubtless identical with Jacques Vaet; this tends to confirm Vaet's supposed Flemish nationality, for Haemus devotes many of his poems to dwellers in Courtrai and other towns close by. Moreover, Guicciardini 1 definitely states that among native musicians
3'di presente vivono Giaches de Waet, Giachetto di Berckem, etc., e molti altri tutti maestri di musica celeberrimi, & sparsi con honore & gradi per il mondo.'
5Manuscript copies of a Magnificat, of motets and masses composed by Vaet are in the following libraries:
7Augsburg.—Missa sex vocum super carmen 'Tityre tu patulae,' Jacobus Vaet, 1595.
8Berlin.—Missa sex vocum super 'Ego flos campi'; a motet for five, and one for four voices.
9Breslau.—MS. 203, dated 1583, Magnificats, I.-VIII. toni, for four voices. MS. 97, Missa super 'Vitam quae faciunt,' dated May 17 1593, and Missa super 'Tityre tu patulae,' both for six voices. Eighteen motets for 4, 5, 6, an 8 voices, are in MSS. 1, 2 (dated 1573), 3, 5, 6 (dated 1567), 7 and 11 (dated 1583). (See Bohn's Catalogue.)
10Brieg.—One motet for five, and one for six voices. (See Kuhn's Catalogue.)
11Dresden.—MS. 276. The Te Deum in three movements, for eight voices, scored by Wilhelm Fischer. (See Kade's Catalogue.) Another MS. score made by J. G. Bastiaans is in the library of the Maatschappij tot Bevordering der Toonkunst.
12Liegnitz.—Motet for five voices. (See Pfudel's Catalogue.)
13London—British Museum. Add. MS. 31,992, in lute tablature; 'Salve Regina,' 'Aspice Domine,' 'In tenebris' and 'Huc me sideris.'
14Lübeck.—In a cantional 'Reges terrae' for five voices; 'Beata es' for four voices.
15Munich.—Mus. MS. 45. An unpublished Mass 'Dissimulare' for six voices. Mus. MS. 82, 'Magnificat VIII. tonorum, autore Jacobo Faet (!) Caesar. maj. Capellae magister. Anno Domini, 1565,' for four voices, unpublished. Mus. MS. 41, Hymn, 'O gloriosa domina,' for eight voices, in two movements. Mus. MS. 1536. An incomplete set of partbooks, dated 1583, with sixteen motets and hymns, for six and eight voices. Mus. MS. 1501. Motet for four voices. (See J. J. Maier's Catalogue.)
16Nuremberg.—Lorenzkirche Bibliothek, MS. Sign. 227, S. Egyd, dated Sept. 3, 1573; Missa Quodlibetica cum quinque vocibus a Jacobo Vaet excellentissimo musico composita. Missa sex vocum facta ad imitationem cantileneae 'Si me tenes,' auctore Jacobo Vaet. (See H. Botstiber's Catalogue.)
17Proske Library.—Missa super 'Tityre tu patulae' for six voices. Magnificat VIII. tonorum for four voices, and six motets.
18Stuttgart.—Landes-Bibl. MS. 5. 'Dum steteritis' for five voices.
19Vienna.—MS. 15,950. Three masses for six voices; 'Ego flos campi,' 'Dissimulare' and 'Tityre tu patulae.' A Mass, 'J'ay mis, mon cœur,' for eight voices. MS. 19,280. Canon, sex vocum, dedicated to 'Maximiliano Bohemorum Regi, Archiduci Austriae,' and with the text 'Qui operatus est Petro,' etc. A minute description of this work, printed at Vienna by Raphael Hofhalter, in 1560, is to be found in Schmid's Ottaviano dei Petrucci, 1845, p. 215. MSS. 15,613, 18,828 and 19,189, contain motets. (See Mantuani's Catalogue.)
20Zwickau.—MS. 742, date about 1560, an incomplete copy of the Mass super 'Si me tenes' (See Vollhardt's Catalogue.)
22VAGANS, i.e. wandering, uncertain—an old name for the Quinta Pars in a mass or motet, so called because it was not necessarily of any particular compass, but might be a second soprano, or alto, or tenor; though usually a tenor.
24VAISSEAU-FANTÔME, LE, opera in 2 acts; words translated or imitated from the FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (q.v.), of Wagner (from whom the scenario was purchased), music by Dietsch. Produced Opéra, Paris, Nov. 9, 1842.
26VAL, FRANÇOIS DU, see Duval.
27VALDERRÁBANO, ENRIQUEZ DE, see Enriquez.
28VALDRIGHI, COUNT LUIGI FRANCESCO (b. Modena, 1837; d. there, Apr. 20, 1899),
30musical historian to whose untiring zeal we owe a number of new facts as well as corrections, especially with regard to Modenese musicians. They are contained in a collection of small pamphlets, called Musurgiana, comprising biographies, descriptions of famous instruments for the compilation of which his position of honorary librarian or curator of the Este Museum afforded him special facilities. His most important work is perhaps his Nomo-cheliurgographia, the most extensive record of musical instrument makers, ancient and modern, in existence. He wrote also a continuation of Gandini's Chronicle of Modenese Theatres, and other minor works. He was an amateur violoncellist, and possessed a very valuable collection of ancient instruments which he left to the Este Museum. The Academy of Sciences and Arts of Modena and the Academy of S. Cecilia at Rome both elected him an honorary member.
32E. v. d. s.
34VALENTINE, JOHN (d. ? Leicester, 1791), a composer, mainly of instrumental pieces, settled at Leicester in the latter half of the 18th century. His works include some songs, an 'Ode on the Birthday of the Marquis of Granby,' a set of 'Thirty Psalm Tunes,' and several books of marches and minuets, among which are, 'Twenty-four Marches, Minuets, and Airs in Seven parts,' 'Eight easy Symphonies for two Violins and two Hautboys,' 'Sixteen Marches and Minuets,' etc. etc.
36F. K.
38VALENTINE, ROBERT, a violinist and composer of the early 18th century. He may be identical with a flautist who lived at Rome in 1714, and appeared in London in 1731, and who was known in Italy as Roberto Valentino or Valentini. Long before the date of his appearance in London (if the two men are identical) he had published with Walsh numerous works as follows:
40Op.
411. Twelve sonatas for two violins and bass.
422. Twelve sonatas or soli for a flute.
433. Twelve sonatas for a flute (c. 1701).
444. Six sonatas for two violins, two oboes or German flutes, with bass.
455. Twelve sonatas for flute.
466. Twelve sonatas for two flutes (or Six sonatas for two violins).
477. Six sonatas for two flutes, or two violins.
489 and 10. Setts of Aires, for two flutes and bass.
4911 and 13. Flute sonatas, and six Setts of Aires and a Chacoon for two flutes (c. 1720).
51Sonatas for flute, adaptable for violin, mandola or oboe, appeared in Rome about 1730, and MS. compositions are at Upsala, Rostock and Wolfenbüttel. In Alfred Moffat's 'Meisterschule' two are reprinted (Q.-L., etc.).
53VALENTINI, GIOVANNI, was from 1614 court organist to the Archduke Ferdinand at Grazi; after the latter's enthronement as the Emperor Ferdinand II., Valentini was his Imperial court organist in Vienna.2
55Books of masses were published in 1617, 1621
571 Descr. di tutti paesi bassi, 1567, p. 29.
582 Thus Riemann; Q.-L. gives 1617 in place of 1614.
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