Eustache du Caurroy

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Eustache du Caurroy (* 1549 in Gerberoy in Picardy ; † August 7, 1609 in Paris ) was a French composer of the Renaissance .

Life

From 1570 initially as a singer in the service of the French kings Charles IX. , Heinrich III. and Heinrich IV , he soon became known as a composer and won the Evreux composition competition in 1575 and 1576, including the motet Tribularer si nescirem . In 1595 he became court conductor and composer de la musique de la chambre (chamber composer). He also worked as a canon in various cities.

Stylistic position

Posterity will remember du Caurroy mainly for his funeral mass ( Missa Pro Defunctis ), which was first used in 1610 at the burial of the murdered King Henry IV and was an integral part of Bourbon funeral ceremonies for 115 years .

In his day, du Caurroy was a very well-known personality and received numerous honors. This extraordinary success is based on a simplistic structure of his works, which wants to stand out from the harmonic and contrapuntal mannerisms of the middle of the century.

In fact, du Caurroy's work is an "image of a world order" (Jean-Michel Vaccaro), in which his decidedly conservative classicism could soon be read as the musical pathos formula of the "new" Bourbon France.

Works

  • Preces ecclesiasticae ad numeros musices redactae (2 volumes, 1609) with 5 fantaisies sur une jeune fillette (1609)
  • Meslanges de la musique (1610)
  • Missa pro defunctis (publ. 1636)
  • 42 Fantasies (1610)
  • Chansons

literature

  • M.-A. Colin (Ed.): Eustache du Caurroy. Preces ecclesiasticae. Brepols Publishers, 1999, ISBN 978-2-252-03280-0
  • M.-A. Colin (Ed.): Eustache du Caurroy, Missa pro Defunctis. Brepols Publishers, 2003, ISBN 978-2-503-51492-5
  • Michel Huglo: Speaking of the Requiem de du Caurroy. In: Revue de musicologie. 51/1965.
  • Stefan Schmidl: Liturgical and historical memoria. Eustache du Caurroy´s Missa Pro Defunctis. In: (ders.): Music as a medium. Vienna Univ., Dissertation 2004.
  • Katelijne Schiltz: you Caurroy. In: Music in the past and present. Kassel 2002. Person part 5.
  • Jean-Michel Vaccaro: du Caurroy: XXIII Fantasies. (Booklet) Astrée 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Caurroy, you eustache
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Renaissance composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1549
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerberoy, Picardy
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1609
Place of death Paris