Guillaume Le Heurteur

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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[edit]

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[edit]

Very little information is available on Guillaume le Heurteur. His name is quoted by François Rabelais in the second prologue to the Le Quart Livre [fr], published in 1552, alongside those of Josquin des Prés, Pierre de La Rue and Jean Mouton.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Ferrand 2011, p. 694

Bibliography[edit]

  • Ferrand, Françoise (2011). Guide de la musique de la Renaissance. Les indispensables de la musique. Fayard. p. 1240. ISBN 978-2213606385.

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