Biography
Jean Caulery (also Jean Cauleray, born around 1510; died around 1560, active 1556) was a French composer of the Renaissance.
Jean Caulery was Kapellmeister of Queen Catherine of France in 1556 when he resided in Brussels. This is Caulery's only known position.
Jean Caulery seems to have belonged to a northern French school. His cousin was Michel de Francqueville, the abbot of Saint-Aubert in Cambrai. In 1556, he dealt with his religious and moral views on music. In addition, Jean Caulery and his publisher Adrien du Hecquet, a monk in Arras, asked for a poem that would highlight Caulery's sacred chansons in good light. It is also significant that the works of Jean Caulery were published in Leuven and Antwerp by the famous printer and composer Hubert Waelrant.
Between 1552 and 1556, Jean Caulery published six secular and eleven spiritual chansons, including texts by Clément Marot (psalms, 6 pieces), Eustorg de Beaulieu (4 pieces) and Théodore de Bèze (3 pieces), some with significant textual changes in a polyphonic style typical of northern France for four voices. He does not treat these works syllabically, but in a clear imitatory style.
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