Carpentras (Elzear Genet)

A French composer who was simply actively involved with service towards the popes, particularly Leo X and Clement VII. The printings of his functions include people, magnificats, lamentations, psalms, hymns, motets, plus some secular items. Carpentras’ Lamentations had been performed each year in the Sistine Chapel before period of Pope Sixtus V (1587). His sacred functions were preserved through a printing agreement leading to four quantities of his compositions. Carpentras excelled in counterpoint — borrowing melodic sections for most of his functions or with them as the building blocks of his compositions — but was quite unimaginaive in the emotive likelihood of music.