Pierre Gaultier

Pierre Gaultier , also Gaultier Orleanois , Gaultier de Rome (* 1599 in Orléans , † after 1660) was a French lutenist and composer.

Life

Pierre Gaultier came from Orléans (probably baptized on August 30, 1599 in Saint-Michel, Orléans). Possibly already active in Italy at the beginning of the 1630s, Gaultier is likely to his patron, Johann Anton I. Imperial Prince von Eggenberg (1610–1649), who was the special ambassador of Emperor Ferdinand III. was sent to Pope Urban VIII, met in Rome in 1638. Nothing is known about his further résumé.

Gaultier is not identical with the Jesuit and polymath Pierre Gaultruche (Latinized Petrus Galtruchius Aurelianensis, baptized August 4, 1602 in Saint-Paul, Orléans; d. 1681 in Caen ), with whom he was previously identified.

plant

Pierre Gaultier's music has survived in a print dedicated to the Prince of Eggenberg: Les Oeuvres de Pierre Gaultier (Rome, 1638). This print, which Gaultier probably financed and distributed himself, is the only one with French lute music of the time that was published outside of France. The collection contains 105 pieces in six different new tunings of the lute (Accords Nouveaux).

Gaultier's music is typical in that he cultivates the lutenistic style of the broken melody (christened "stile brisée" in the 20th century) and uses the so-called new moods of the lute. Unusual for the French lute music of that time is the extensive use of technical ties through the gripping hand (trigger and serve) as well as the Campanella technique (playing melodies on bell-like interlocking, fingered and open strings), both of which reveal the influence of Italian guitarists and theorists .

Edition

Monique Rollin (ed.), Oeuves de Pierre Gaultier, Paris 1984 (CNRS, Corpus des Luthistes Français )

admission

Sigrun Richter, Les Accords Nouveaux. Pierre Gaultier, "Les Oeuvres", Rome 1636

literature

François-Pierre Goy, Three Versions of Pierre Gaultier's Battaille (1626, 1638, 1650), in: Michael Fink (Ed.), Journal of the Lute Society of America, Vol. XLII-XLIII (2009-2010), p. 1 -89, ISSN 0076-1524

Web links

Accords nouveaux

Individual evidence

^ Konrad Ragossnig : Handbook of the guitar and lute. Schott, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-7957-2329-9 , p. 43.

personal data
SURNAME	Gaultier, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gautier de Rome; Gaultier Orleanois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French lutenist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	baptized 1599
PLACE OF BIRTH	Orleans
DATE OF DEATH	after 1638

[1] Konrad Ragossnig : Handbook of the guitar and lute. Schott, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-7957-2329-9 , p. 43.