Johannes [Jean]  Conseil [Consilium] {Leo X-Clement VII}

Paris; in the Sainte Chapelle of Paris,  1509 - 1513 ; earliest reference, listed as a boy singer, along with Hilaire Penet and de Monchiaron, in the household of  Elzéar Genet (Carpentras), the maestro di cappella in the rotulus of the famiglia of Leo X of 1 May  1514 ; receipt lists of [ 1525 - 1526 ] and December  1526 ;  mandati : July-September  1529 , April  1530 -October  1531 , January  1532 -December  1534 ; unpublished beneficial documents :RAS, Camerale I, 1106, fols. 54r-58r: bull dated 5 September  1514 , LR 20, fol. 165r: entry dated 20 August  1518 , LR 20, fol.: entry dated 16 October  1518 , LR 25, fol. 21r: entry dated 4 May  1519 , LR 21, fol.: entry dated 24 December  1519 , LR 23, fol.: entry dated 13 April  1521 , RV 1446, fols. 527r-528v: bull dated 27 April  1525 , RV 1327, fols. 159v-161v: bull dated 10 April  1526 , RL 1476, fols. 88r-89v: bull dated 15 July  1527 , RV 1370, fols. 255r-256v: bull dated 20 April  1528 , RL 1503, fols. 123v-125r: bull dated 28 April  1528 , RV 1446, fols. 319r-320v: bull dated 6 September  1528 , RV 1430, fols. 229r-230v: bull dated 31 October  1528 , RV 1405, fols. 22r-28v: bull dated 20 February  1529 ; see  FREY  for bulls dated 10 February  1515 , 13 February  1515 , 16 Nay  1515 , 4 March  1517 , 10 October  1517 , 8 December  1518 , 11 January  1520 , 6 February  1521 , 9 April  1521 ; had   died   by 11 January  1535 (probably the week before) when a funeral Mass was celebrated in San Luigi dei Francesi.

Conseil was closely connected with Clement VII who, after the disaster of the Sack of Rome in  1527 , sent him on an important mission to recruit singers from France and Flanders; Conseil had left by August  1528  and returned in December bringing six new singers with him. In June  1526 , Conseil is called "maestro della cappella secreta di N.S." although there is no other real documentary evidence that such a special group of singers actually existed.

Some of Conseil's compositions are extant in VatS manuscripts:  "Lumen ad revelationem"  in VatS 484, fols. 40v-41v;  "Ego sum qui sum"  in VatS 24, fols. 40v-45r; "O desolatorum Consolator"  in VatS 55, fols. 130v-133r. For a complete work list, see  TNG .

DOCUMENTS

DS 1

3r: entry dated 11 January 1535 [CASIMIRI (1924), p. 87]

BIBLIOGRAPHY: CELANI, pp. 93-94; HABERL; FERRAIOLI, Alessandro. "Il ruolo della Corte di Leone X (1514-1516)." Archivio della Reale Società Romana di Storia Patria 34-41 (1911-1918), esp. 34 (1911): 391; CASIMIRI ;  FREY, Hermann-Walther. "Michelagniolo und die Kompositionen seiner Madrigale."  Acta Musicologica  24 (1952): 160-165; FREY  (1955): 180-181, (1956): 145-146; BRAGARD, Anne-Marie. "Détails Nouveaux sur les Musiciens de la Cour de Clément VII." Revue Belge de Musicologie 12 (1958): 5-18; BRAUNER, Mitchell. "Jean du Conseil (Johannes Consilium): His Life and Motets." M.F.A. thesis, Brandeis University, 1978; BRAGARD, Anne-Marie. "La vie musicale à la cour du pape Médicis Clément VII (1523-1534)." In GRACE, Michael, ed. A Festschrift for Albert Seay (Colorado Springs, 1982), pp. 45-70.