Claude Goudimel

Claude Goudimel (* 1500 in Vaison to Avignon (also: to 1514 in Besançon); † August 24 (also August 28 ) in 1572 in Lyon) was a French composer.

Life

Goudimel lived in Paris, Metz, Besançon and Lyon. He was probably a pupil of the Dutchman Josquin Desprez, and was built around 1540 in Rome, a music school, from the next Animuccia Giovanni and Giovanni Maria Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Nanino also emerged. He was a Huguenot, and died as victims of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew.

Work

Goudimel earned special merit by his 1565 published setting of the so-called Geneva Psalter, a metrical translation of the psalms by Clément Marot and Théodore de Beze. The Psalter was published eight years later with a German text by Ambrose Lobwasser in Leipzig and found in Germany the same acclaim as in France. From the preface to the work shows that the melodies do not come from Goudimel itself, but merely taken from him and have been re- set.

In addition to the psalm settings he published masses, motets and sound sets to Horatian odes and songs, of which appeared a part along with similar works of Orlando di Lasso in 1574 in Lyon, published under the title La fleur des chansons collection.

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