Guillaume Le Heurteur

Guillaume le Heurteur (also found under the form Guillaume Heurteur and Guillaume Hurteur) was a French composer of the Renaissance about whom very little is known.

Life

Also a canon and preceptor of the choirboys of the Collegiate church Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours as evidenced by the title page of a collection of motets published in the same year,[1] Le Heurteur was the author of four masses, two Magnificats, twenty-one motets and twenty-three songs, published between 1530 and 1549, mainly by Pierre Attaingnant, printer in Paris.[1]

Sources and biography

Very little information is available on Guillaume le Heurteur. His name is quoted by François Rabelais in the second prologue to the Le Quart Livre, published in 1552, alongside those of Josquin des Prés, Pierre de La Rue and Jean Mouton.[1]

References
  1. (Ferrand 2011, p. 694)

Bibliography
  • Ferrand, Françoise (2011). Guide de la musique de la Renaissance. Les indispensables de la musique. Fayard. p. 1240. ISBN 978-2213606385.
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