Pierre Vallette

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Pierre Vallette (mentioned from 1552 to 1561 ) was a cantor and composer of the Church of Geneva .

Life

Pierre Vallette is mentioned for the first time on December 30, 1552 as the deputy of the cantor Loys Bourgeois , who made a trip to Lyon. The city council of Geneva handed over the office of choir at the Saint Pierre Cathedral to Vallette on an interim basis . From 1553 Vallette lived in the college on the Rive in Geneva.

On October 12, 1553, the council installed the cantor Guillaume de La Mœulle instead of Pierre Vallette as the successor to Loys Bourgeois. Vallette received compensation. In 1556 he gave lessons at the cathedral school as the deputy of La Mœulle. In 1559 he married Anne Oustel, daughter of a pastor in Geneva.

Vallette stayed in Geneva for the time being and worked among other things as a collaborator in the publication of the Geneva Psalter . After 1561 he left Geneva.

Works

  • Introductory verse to: Second livre des pseaulmes et sentences tirées tant du psalmiste royal que des autres Saincts Prophètes, mis en musique en forme de motetz, par divers excellens musiciens ... Geneva, 1555.
  • Preface to: Octante neuf pseaumes. Geneva 1556
  • Textbook for singing lessons; 1556.
  • New edition by: Octante neuf pseaumes. Geneva, 1559, with a foreword by Pierre Vallette

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On this in: Geneva Psalter .
  2. ^ Pierre Pidoux: Le Psautier huguenot du XVIe siècle. Basel 1962, p. 89

literature

  • Jean-Michel Noailly: Les transpositeurs des psaumes: Vallette, Leeuw, Légaré, Lardenois et les autres. In: Psaume. Vol. 1, 1987, pp. 17-21.
personal data
SURNAME Vallette, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cantor and hymn composer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1550
DATE OF DEATH after 1560