Sandrin

Pierre Regnault ( named after a figure of the Italian commedia dell'arte Pierre Sandrin, * about 1490 in Saint -Marcel in Paris, † 1561 in Italy ) was a French composer of the Renaissance.

Before Sandrin gained notoriety as a musician, he was an actor. In a document he is referred to as badin relaxants ( = old actor). Sandrin has been the Dean of the monastic chapter of Saint- Florent -de- Roye in Picardy, and from 1543 in the Chapelle Royale; 1549 to 1560 he was a canon there. Sandrin traveled to Rome in 1560 and found employment with the Cardinal Ippolito II d' Este of Ferrara, he died around 1561 in Italy.

Between 1538 and 1549 he published about 50 four- part songs. Among them are Puisque vivre en servitute ( 1548), Puisque de vous, or Douce mémoire on a text by François I. The latter work was reprinted several times at various Flemish publishers and was well known throughout Europe. Various composers took to the melody, as Diego Ortiz, Tielman Susato and Cyprian de Rore ( 1516-1565 ).

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