Eustorg de Beaulieu

Eustorg de Beaulieu (* around 1495 in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne (today in the Corrèze department ); † January 8, 1552 in Basel ) was a French author , clergyman , organist and composer .

Life

It is not clear where he received his training. In 1522 he was the organist at Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais in Lecoutre in the Gers department . From 1524 he stayed in Tulle . The later published work Les Divers Rapportz contained several poems of homage addressed to well-known personalities of the city. In a poem, Beaulieu stated that he worked as a music teacher. In 1529 he was ordained a priest , in 1533 or 1534 he moved to Lyon and entered the service of the former city governor Pomponio Trivulzi. Divers Rapportz was published here in 1537, which is said to have also contained twelve three to four-part chansons in individual parts; only three of these chansons are preserved in the first volumes of Jacques Moderne's collection Le parangon des chansons (1538).

Beaulieu converted to Protestantism in 1537 and fled to Geneva that same year . At the Academy of Lausanne , he studied theology . In 1540 he passed his examination before the consistory and became pastor in Thierrens and Moudon in the canton of Vaud . In 1546 he published his Chrestienne Resjouyssance , presumably in Geneva , which contained 160 sacred songs. 39 of them are in a separate section, Beaulieu stated that he had suspended them in three and four parts and that he would publish them as soon as he had found a suitable printer. However, none of these songs has survived, only the lyrics have survived. In 1547 Beaulieu resigned from his pastoral office (according to other sources he was removed from office) and then stayed in Biel for a year . In May 1548 he enrolled at the University of Basel and published the Espinglier des filles, his last work, which the humanistically educated lawyer Bonifacius Amerbach supported as a friend and patron. In 1550 he worked again as a music teacher in Biel, but returned to Basel. A diary note from the Basel envoy Johannes Gastius recorded the death of "Studiosus Hector, also called Eustorgius", as Beaulieu called himself an author since his time in Lyon; this name probably went back to his student Hélaine de Gondi.

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Beaulieu became known as a poet, but not as a composer. His three traditional chansons Bon jour bon an et bonne estrayne , Voici le bon temps and Mondain sejour j'ay perdu ta présence from the Parangon des chansons are not sufficient for a stylistic classification. Although they are melodically inventive, they show only very simple harmonic means and a poorly developed polyphony with at most a rudimentary imitation technique in the style of his French contemporaries.

literature

• Guillaume Colletet: Vie d'Eustorg de Beaulieu . Paris 1878. Reprinted by Slatkine: Geneva 1970
• George Becker: Eustorg de Beaulieu . Sandoz et Fischbacher: Paris 1880
• Hélène J. Harvitt: Eustorg de Beaulieu. A disciple of Marot . New York 1918. Reprinted 1966