Pierre Guédron

Pierre Guedron (also Pierre Guesdron; * 1570 in Châteaudun; † after 1620 in Paris) was a French singer and composer. He was one of the innovators of French music in the early 17th century and one of the first designers of a dramatic oriented ballet.

Life

Guedron came from a resident in the Dunois family. He is shown in 1585 as a chorister in the Chapel of the Cardinal and Archbishop of Reims Ludwig II of Lorraine - Guise. As a violist he performed on a Puy in Évreux. After his master 's execution in 1588, Guedron entered royal service. At first he was a singer at the chapel of Henry III .. In the course of cultural reorganization by Henry IV, which concerned the court music, he was promoted to director of the ensemble. He probably married during this time, Gillette Dugué.

In 1601 he was appointed as the successor of Claude Le Jeune to the Royal Chamber composers and in 1603 finally appointed chamber servant and music educator. In the latter capacity, he supervised the children of Mary de ' Medici. Both offices he gave in 1613 to his son Antoine Boesset on. Guedron ended his life with a considerable fortune, which he had acquired in the royal service, on his estate in the Dunois.

Pierre Guedron enjoyed great esteem on the part of his contemporaries. Madeleine de Scudéry sat in her novel preciosity Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus ( 1649-53 ) as Crysile a literary monument to its validity as a singing teacher. The theorist Marin Mersenne praised Guedron in its universal harmony ( 1636) as a composer.

Musical work

The main compositional work Guédrons is its vocal music for the Ballets de cour in the royal court. Among the texts set to music, there are poems by Nicolas Rapin, Jacques- Davy Duperron, François de Malherbe, Estienne Durand, François Maynard François and Le Metel de Bois Robert, as well as some of their own work. Guedron was the foremost French composer of his time. He reached the first developed at the Florentine Camerata developed monody and them in his Airs de cour on; his airs frequently published here in two different versions, a syllabic - polyphonic and monodic with lute accompaniment. He replaced so that the old popular vaudeville and chansons by a new, the gallant tastes introductory class. Although knew Guedron Musique mesurée from the work Le Jeunes and had even experimented with the prosodic form, but he broke away from the declamation and designed the Air de cour both natural rhythm of the developing French language.

Guédrons compositions exerted a renewing effect on the aesthetics of courtly ballet. He left with his work for the court ballet until then typical, action- poor masquerades genre and turned to the dramatic oriented Ballet to mélodramatique. Among the earliest dramatic dance games with pantomimic elements, Entrées and interludes included the Ballet de la Reyne (1609 ). Guedron pursued this genre until the completion of the Ballet de la Délivrance de Renaud ( 1617). He took on the reforms of his Italian contemporaries Ottavio Rinuccini and Giulio Caccini. Nevertheless, the Italian reform efforts were not the focus of his aesthetics, Guedron oriented more toward the early Baroque ornamentation with no text repetition. By assimilating the melodramatic Ballet and the Ballet comique humanist, he contributed significantly to the emergence of ballet opera with comic solos as they designed Jean- Baptiste Lully later with their interludes.

Works

• Airs de cour Many, ed. by Pierre Ballard, partly in sound set of Boesset Antoine (Paris 1602-1620 ) and anonymous records
• Ballet sur ​​la Naissance de Monseigneur le duc de Vendosme (1602 )
• Monseigneur le duc de Ballet de Vendosme or Ballet d' Alcine (1610 )
• Ballet de Madame ( 1613 )
• Ballet des Argonautes ( 1614)
• Ballet du Triomphe de Minerve ( 1615)
• Ballet de Monsieur le Prince ( 1615)
• Ballet du Roy ou Ballet de la Délivrance de Renaud ( 1617)
• Ballet des Princes ( 1618)
• Ballet du Roy sur L' Adventure Tancrède de en la forest enchantée ( 1619)

• French composer
• Composer ( Baroque)
• Born in the 16th century
• Died in the 17th century
• Man