Guillaume Le Heurteur
Guillaume le Heurteur (also found under the form Guillaume Heurteur and Guillaume Hurteur) was a French composer of the Renaissance about whom very little is known.
Life[]
Also a canon and preceptor of the choirboys of the Collegiate church Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours as evidenced by the title page of a collection of motets published in the same year,[1] Le Heurteur was the author of four masses, two Magnificats, twenty-one motets and twenty-three songs, published between 1530 and 1549, mainly by Pierre Attaingnant, printer in Paris.[1]
Sources and biography[]
Very little information is available on Guillaume le Heurteur. His name is quoted by François Rabelais in the second prologue to the , published in 1552, alongside those of Josquin des Prés, Pierre de La Rue and Jean Mouton.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Ferrand 2011, p. 694
Bibliography[]
- Ferrand, Françoise (2011). Guide de la musique de la Renaissance. Les indispensables de la musique. Fayard. p. 1240. ISBN 978-2213606385.
External links[]
- Free scores by Guillaume Le Heurteur at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Free scores by Guillaume Le Heurteur in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Guillaume le Heurteur on IdRef
- Guillaume le Heurteur on MusicBrainz
- Le Heurteur, Guillaume on WorldCat
- Mirelaridon - Guillaume le Heurteur (fl.1530-1545) on YouTube
- Renaissance composers
- French composers of sacred music
- Canons (priests)
- 16th-century French composers