Pierre Gaultier

Pierre Gaultier, Gaultier also Orleanois, Gaultier de Rome was a French lutenist and composer.

Life

Pierre Gaultier came from Orléans (probably baptized on August 30, 1599 in Saint -Michel, Orléans ). You may already active in Italy beginning of the 1630s, Gaultier likely his patron, Johann Anton I. princes of Eggenberg ( 1610-1649 ), the. As a special envoy of the Emperor Ferdinand III was sent to Pope Urban VIII, having met in 1638 in Rome. Of his subsequent career nothing is known.

Gaultier is not identical with the Jesuit and polymath Pierre Gaultruche ( Latinized Peter Galtruchius Aurelianensis, baptized on August 4, 1602 in Saint -Paul, Orléans, died in 1681 in Caen ), with whom he was identified earlier.

Work

The music of Pierre Gaultier has been handed down in a the princes of Eggenberg dedicated pressure: Les Oeuvres de Pierre Gaultier (Rome, 1638). This pressure, the well- funded Gaultier himself and sales, is the only one with French lute music of that time, which was published outside France. The collection contains 105 pieces in six different moods of the new sounds ( Accords Nouveaux ).

Gaultier's music is typical in that it maintains the melody lautenistischen style of broken ( "stile brisée " baptized in the 20th century) and the so-called new moods of the sounds used. Unusually for the French lute music of the time is the extensive use of technical bonds by the grasping hand ( trigger and impact ) and Campanella technique ( melody on bell- like fashion sounding fretted and open strings ), both of which betray the influence of Italian guitarist and Theorbenspieler.

Edition

Monique Rollin (ed.), Pierre Gaultier de Oeuves, Paris 1984 ( CNRS, Corpus of Luthistes Français)

Recording

Sigrun Richter, Les Accords Nouveaux. Pierre Gaultier, " Les Oeuvres ", Rome 1636, ASIN: B000024PKV