Elzearius [Elzéar]  Genet [Carpentras] {Julius II-Leo X}

Carpentras; first reference,  mandati  list of June 1508;  mandati : June and October 1508, February, 1509; unpublished beneficial documents : RS 1325, fols. 144v-145r: supplication dated August 21, 1509. RS 1329, fols. 161r-162v: supplication dated November 3, 1509. RS 1334, fols. 83v-84r: supplication dated December 1, 1509. RS 1334, fols. 259v-260r: supplication dated December 6, 1509. RS 1336, fols. 169v-170r: supplication dated January 23, 1510. RS 1339, fol. 169r: supplication dated February 22, 1510. RS 1356, fol. 71r: supplication dated September 10, 1510. RS 1370, fol. 92v: supplication dated October 2, 1510. RS 1370, fols. 165r-165v: supplication dated October 4, 1510. RS 1357, fols. 46r-47v: supplication dated October 13, 1510. RS 1357, fol. 130v: supplication dated October 23, 1510. RV 975, fols. 307r-308v: bull dated October 4, 1511. RS 1372, fols. 77r-77v: supplication dated October 16, 1511. RS 1361, fols. 19v-20v: supplication dated March 28, 1511. RS 1386, fols. 120r-120v: supplication dated May 21, 1512. RS 1386, fols.257v-258r: supplication dated May 27, 1512. RS 1433, fols. 2r-2v: supplication dated November 5, 1513. ASV Arm. XLIV vol. 5, fol. 81r: breve dated September 1, 1514. RS 1511, fol. 191v: supplication dated September 18, 1515. RS 1511, fol. 122v: supplication dated November 11, 1515. RS 1511, fols. 191r-191v: supplication dated November 11 1515. RS 1511, fol. 191r: supplication dated January 24, 1516. RS fols. 180r-180v: supplication dated January 23, 1517. RS fols.272r-272v: supplication dated January 29, 1517. RS 1596, fols. 109r-109v: supplication dated January 31, 1517. Annate 53, fol. 52v: entry dated February 13, 1520. Annate 53, fol. 69v: entry dated February 25, 1520. Annate 53, fol. 139r: entry dated . LR 25, fol. 21r: entry dated May 3, 1519. LR 25, fol. 22r: entry dated May 7, 1519. LR 25, fol. 136r: entry dated May 21, 1520. RV 1215, fols. 99r-101v: bull dated August 31, 1522; see  FREY  for bulls dated 29 November 1514, 19 April 1515, 16 May 1515, 9 June 1515, 16 September 1515, 8 April 1516, 19 June 1516, 7 October 1516, 15 April 1518, 1 November 1517;  died  in Avignon 14 June 1548.

Born in a city near the papal see of Avignon, Genet probably came to the papal chapel through the influence of Julius II, who had been the archbishop of Avignon. On May 21, 1512 Genet announced his intention of leaving Rome. He went to the chapel of Louis XII of France from whence he returned at Leo X's request, and was named Master of the Papal Chapel on November 5, 1513 (the first musician to be given this post). He remained in the chapel during the reign of Leo X, but after the pope died, he returned to Avignon, probably in August, 1522 (in September, 1522, the singers asked for Guillelmus Enchevort to be made maestro). He may have returned in the first years of the reign of Clement VII but did not rejoin the chapel. For more biographical details, bibliography, and complete work list, see  TNG .

BIBLIOGRAPHY: FREY  (1955): 67-69, (1956): 414;  TNG ;  SHERR, Richard. "The Membership of the Chapels of Louis XII and Anne de Bretagne in the Years Preceding their Deaths." SHERR, Richard. "Ceremonies for Holy Week, Papal Commissions, and Madness (?) in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome." in Jessie Ann Owens and Anthony Cummings, eds. Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts: Studies in Honor of Lewis Lockwood , Detroit Monographs in Musicology/Studies in Music, No. 18 (Warren, 1996), pp. 391-403.