Bernart de Ventadorn (Catalan; 1130/1140 – 1190/1200) Can vei la lauzeta mover Spanish/French; 12th century Troubadour cançon Emmanuel Bouquey, Olivier Marcaud, Jean-Paul Rigaud, Evelyne Moser Bernart de Ventadorn (Catalan; 1130/1140 – 1190/1200), also known as Bernard de Ventadour or Bernat del Ventadorn, was a prominent troubadour of the classical age of troubadour poetry. Now thought of as the Master Singer he developed the cançons into a more formalized style which allowed for sudden turns. He is remembered for his mastery as well as popularisation of the trobar leu style, and for his prolific cançons, which helped define the genre and establish the classical form of courtly love poetry, to be imitated and reproduced throughout the remaining century and a half of troubadour activity. According to the troubadour Uc de Saint Circ, Bernart was possibly the son of a baker at the castle of Ventadour (Ventadorn), in todays Corrèze (France). Forced to leave Ventadour after falling in love with Marguerite, he traveled to Montluçon and Toulouse, and eventually followed Eleanor of Aquitaine to England and the Plantagenet court; evidence for this association and these travels comes mainly from his poems themselves. Later Bernart returned to Toulouse, where he was employed by Raimon V, Count of Toulouse; later still he went to Dordogne, where he entered a monastery. Most likely he died there. About 45 of his works survive. Bernart is unique among secular composers of the twelfth century in the amount of music which has survived: of his forty-five poems, eighteen have music intact, an unusual circumstance for a troubador composer.
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