Joan Brudieu

Joan Brudieu (* 1520 in the Diocese of Limoges , † 1591 in La Seu d'Urgell ) was a Catalan composer and church musician of the Renaissance of French origin. According to musicology, Brudieu is a Catalan musician, as he has lived almost his entire musical vita in Catalonia.

Life

Joan Brudieu came to La Seu d'Urgell Cathedral in 1538 as a young singer and conductor . In 1539 the cathedral chapter offered him the position of Kapellmeister. In 1546 he was ordained a priest in this church. In 1548 he was appointed Kapellmeister for life. In 1550 he traveled to his homeland to buy instruments for his band.

In 1577 he withdrew to Balaguer privately . But in 1578 he took the position of conductor in Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona. For health reasons, however, he soon had to give up this position. Life in the “big city” of Barcelona was probably not so much for him either. He returned to La Seu d'Urgell in 1579, where he was reinstated as a musician at the cathedral. In 1586 he went into retirement. When his successor Rafael Coloma left his position as a musician, the cathedral chapter asked Brudieu to take over the position of conductor again. Brudieu then held this position until shortly before his death.

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Brudieu quickly found his way into the culture and life of Catalonia. He incorporated the essence of the Catalan folk tunes and poems deeply into his compositional work. He composed numerous madrigals, mostly based on texts by Ausiàs March . In 1585 he published them in the volume “Los Madrigales del muy Reverendo Joan Brudieu” with Hubert Gotard in Barcelona. The only surviving copy of this work is kept in the library of the El Escorial monastery . A four-part requiem by Brudieu has been preserved by hand. This is kept in the archives of the cathedral of La Seu d'Urgell. The Goigs de Nostra Dona (Hymns of Praise to the Mother of God), published together with the madrigals, are contrapuntal, polyphonic variations on themes from Catalan folk music.

Brudieu's free compositional style with its rigorous counterpoint style is closer to French Renaissance music than to the Roman Palestrina school.

In La Seu d'Urgell, the Passeig de Joan Brudieu is named after Brudieu and the Festival de Música Antiga dels Pirineus (Pyrenees Festival for Early Music) in La Seu d'Urgell is officially called the Festival Internacional de Música Joan Brudieu de la Seu d'Urgell .

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• Enciclopèdia Catalana: Joan Brudieu. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana . Retrieved July 27, 2019 (Catalan). 
• Enciclopèdia Catalana: Joan Brudieu. In: Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música . Retrieved July 27, 2019 (Catalan). 
• Brudieu, Joan . In: Wilibald Gurlitt (Ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon . 12th, completely revised edition. People part: A-K . Schott, Mainz 1959, p. 239 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Brudieu, Joan . In: Carl Dahlhaus (Ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon . 12th, completely revised edition. Personal section: A – K , supplementary volume. Schott, Mainz 1972, p. 162 .
• Nicolas Slonimsky : Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians . Brudieu, Joan. 7th edition. Oxford University Press, London, New York, Toronto 1984, ISBN 0-19-311335-X , pp. 364 .

Web links

Commons : Joan Brudieu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Joan Brudieu in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Joan Brudieu at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Riemann Music Lexicon. 1959. Brudieu, Joan.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Joan Brudieu.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o} Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música. Joan Brudieu.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Statement from the Catalan language Wikipedia.
5. ^ Statement from Discogs.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Oriol Martorell, Manuel Valls: Síntesi històrica de la música catalana . Barcelona 1985, ISBN 84-85709-42-X , pp. 34 .