Pierre de la Rue
Pierre de la Rue (* around 1460 probably in Tournai; † shortly before the November 20, 1518 in Kortrijk ) was a composer and singer as well as clerics.
Life
Pierre de la Rue was probably the son of Gertrude de la Haye and the illuminator Jehan de la Rue. About Youth and Education Pierre de la Rue is otherwise unknown.
For the first time de la Rue is documented in 's- Hertogenbosch. The local Marian Brotherhood, who was also Hieronymus Bosch, paid him for the period from June 1489 to March 1492 for work performed musical services.
On November 17, 1492 Rue member of the Grande Chapelle of the Roman King Maximilian and accompanied his masters in the same year by Den Bosch, where he became a formal member of the Marian Brotherhood.
After the coronation of Emperor Maximilian ( 1493 ), took over his son, the Archduke Philip, called the Fair, the Grande Chapelle. With this, the Archduke broke out on November 4, 1501 from Brussels on a journey to Spain. Except Rue belonged to the Chapelle Alexander Agricola, Marbriano de Orto, Anthony and Nicholas divitis champion. In May 1502 Philip arrived in Spain. In the spring of 1503 the Archduke from Spain returned and met on April 11, 1503 along with his sister Margaret of Savoy, whose most important musician Robert Févin was. On July 23, 1503 Phillip reached Burgundian territory again, then turned to Germany to visit Maximilian.
Pierre de la Rue stood by his masters in high esteem, because this gave him a canonry in the church of Our Lady in Kortrijk.
On January 10, 1506 Burgundian court began with the Grande Chapelle his second trip to Spain. One traveled by water, singers and instrumentalists had their own ship. On January 13, 1506 storm drove a portion of the fleet, the ship also the musicians, to Falmouth. Two singers remained missing. On April 27, 1506, the fleet landed in A Coruña. Philip moved with his entourage for the summer to Valladolid and Burgos, where he fell ill with a fever and died desolate states on 25 September 1506. The chapel was taken over for the most part of Queen Juana, whose staff also belonged Anchieta Juan, the greatest Spanish composer of the period, who wrote La Rue as a Missa Nunqua fiu pena maior. Rue remained until 1508 in Spain.
After his return he entered the service of melancholy and art-loving Margaret of Austria.
Officially, Pierre de la Rue until 1514 a member of the Grande Chapelle and also continued to receive numerous favors. From 1514 to 1516 he belonged to the personal chapel of the future Emperor Charles V and traveled with it, the Netherlands, but withdrew early in 1516 to Kortrijk, where he was LN canon. On 16 June 1516, he made his will.
Works
Measuring
Measuring uncertain attribution
Fragmenta Missarum
Motets
Motets with uncertain attribution of false or
Magnificat settings of
- 8 Magnificat settings of