Eustache du Caurroy

Eustache du Caurroy (* 1549 in Gerberoy in Picardy; † August 7, 1609 in Paris) was a French composer of the Renaissance.

Life

From 1570 first. Vocals in the service of the French kings Charles IX. , Henry III and Henry IV worked, he soon became known as a composer and won 1575 and 1576 the composition competition of Evreux, among other things, the motet Tribularer si nescirem. In 1595 he was Kapellmeister and Compositeur de la musique de la chambre ( chamber composer ). He also worked as a canon in various cities.

Stylistic position

The posterity remained you Caurroy mainly due to its funeral Mass ( Missa Pro Defunctis ) in memory, the first time in 1610 at the funeral of the murdered King Henry IV was used and from then on Bourbon 115 years long integral part funeral was.

In his day you Caurroy was a very well known personality and was the recipient of numerous honors. This extraordinary success is based on a simplistic facture of his works, who wants to stand out from the harmonic and contrapuntal mannerisms middle of the century emphasized.

In fact, you Caurroys work represents an "image of a world order " (Jean -Michel Vaccaro ), in which his decidedly conservative classicism soon as musical pathos formula of the "new " Bourbon France could be read.

Works

• Preces ecclesiasticae ad numeros musices redactae ( 2 volumes, 1609) with 5 fantaisies sur une jeune fillette (1609 )
• Meslanges de la musique (1610 )
• Missa Pro Defunctis ( publ. 1636)
• 42 Fantasies (1610 )
• Chansons