My End Is My Beginning
My End Is My Beginning
Premiere: October the 3rd 2000 at KIEK IN DE KÖK, Tallinn
based on:
Guillaume de Machaut (1300?1377)
“Le Livre Dou Voir Dit”
dramatisation ANU LAMP
translated into Estonian by KAIA SISASK, ANU LAMP, INDREK HIRV (verses)
director ANNE TÜRNPU
set design ENE-LIIS SEMPER
light TÕNNO TOOMRA
cast
ALEKSANDER EELMAA Lover (Lamant)
INGRIT VAHER Dame (Toute bele)
ANNE TÜRNPU Servant (Le secretaire)
Early Music Ensemble RONDELLUS
MARIA STAAK / VEIKO KIIVER / TÕNU JÕESAAR / ROBERT STAAK
~1300 Guillaume de Machaut is born. 73 million people live in Europe (~ 20 million in France )
~1323 Machaut becomes the secretary and chaplain of Jean de Luxembourg King of Bohemia
1329-1331 Machaut accompanies the King on his invasion to Poland , Russia , Lithuenia, Italy and Austria
1337 Machaut becomes the Canon of Rheims. Begins A Hundred Years War that lasts until 1453
1346 the King Jean de Luxembourg is killed in the Battle of Grécy
1348 the plague reaches Euroope
1358 riots in France . The townspeople riot in Paris , in the countryside the peasants uprising takes place (Jacquerie). The noblesse stifles both of them.
1361 the second wave of plague in Europe
13611362 Machaut is sick and writes his “will” the ballad “Pleures, dames”
1362 May a friend brings Machaut a letter from the Dame
1363 May-June Machaut starts writing “Le Voir Dit”
1st of May 1365 the last dated letter from the Dame
1377 April Guillaume de Machaut dies
Major works of Guillaume de Machaut:
Poetry:
“Le Jugement dou roy de Behaingne” before 1346
“Le Jugement dou roy de Navarre ” 1349
“Le Remedede de Fortune” 13421349?
“Le Louange des Dames” ?
“Le Livre dou Voir Dit” ~1365
Music:
Mass “La Messe de Nostre Dame”,
23 motets, 38 ballads, 19 rondeaus, 22 lais, 38 virelais, David Hoquetus
“Le Livre dou Voir Dif”
“Le Livre dou Voir Dit” is one of the masterpieces of Guillaume de Machaut.
The book includes the correspondence of the poet
and a young noblewoman (46 letters).
The letters are united by 9000 lines of verse
and poems that the lovers sent each other.
Machaut has written also music to eight of these poems.
Nes quon porroit les estoiles nombrer
Quant on les voit luire plus clerement
Et les goutes de pluie et de la mer
Et lareinne seur quoy elle sestent
Et compasser le tour dou firmament
Ne porroit on penser ne concevoir
Le grant desir que iay de vous veoir
Et si ne puis pardevers vous aler
Pour fortune qui le wet et deffent
Dont maint souspir me couvient estrangler
Quant a vous pense et ie sui entre gent
Et quant ie sui par moy secretement
Adont me fait tous meschies recevoir
Le grant desir que iay de vous veoir
Quar il me fait complaindre et dolouser
Et regreter vostre viaire gent
Et vo biaute souvereinne et sans per
Et la tresgrant douceur qui en descent
Einsi me fait languir piteusement
Mon cuer esprent et estaint mon espoir
Le grant desir que iay de vous veoir
Etendub
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