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GOUDIMEL, CLAUDE

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 281 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOUDIMEL, See also:CLAUDE , muscial composer of the 16th See also:century, was See also:born about 1510. The See also:French and the Belgians claim him as their countryman. In all See also:probability he was born at See also:Besancon, for in his edition of the songs of See also:Arcadelt, as well as in the See also:mass of 1554, he calls himself " natif de Besancon " and " See also:Claudius Godimellus Vescontinus." This discountenances the theory of See also:Ambros that he was born at See also:Vaison near See also:Avignon. As to his See also:early See also:education we know little or nothing, but the excellent Latin in which some of his letters were written proves that, in addition to his musical knowledge, he also acquired a See also:good classical training. It is supposed that he was in See also:Rome in 1540 at the See also:head of a See also:music-school, and that besides many other celebrated musicians, See also:Palestrina was amongst his pupils. About the See also:middle of the century he seems to have See also:left Rome for See also:Paris, where, in See also:conjunction with See also:Jean Duchemin, he published, in 1555, a musical setting of See also:Horace's Odes. Infinitely more important is another collection of vocal pieces, a setting of the celebrated French version of the See also:Psalms by See also:Marot and See also:Beza published in 1565. It is written in four parts, the See also:melody being assigned to the See also:tenor. The invention of the melodies was See also:long ascribed to Goudimel, but they have now definitely been proved to have originated in popular tunes found in the collections of this See also:period. Some of these tunes are still used by the French See also:Protestant See also:Church. Others were adopted by the See also:German See also:Lutherans, a German See also:imitation of the French versions of the Psalms in the same metres having been published at an early date. Although the French version of the Psalms was at first used by Catholics as well as Protestants, there is little doubt that Goudimel had embraced the new faith.

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Michel Brenet's Biographic (Annales See also:franc-cuntoises, Besancon, 1898, P. Jacquin) it is established that in See also:Metz, where he was living in 1565, Goudimel moved in Huguenot circles, and even figured as godfather to the daughter of the See also:president of Senneton. Seven years later he See also:fell a victim to religious fanaticism during the St See also:Bartholomew massacres at See also:Lyons from the 27th to the 28th of See also:August 1572, his See also:death, it is stated, being due to " See also:les ennemis de la gloire de Dieu et quelques mechants envieux de 1'honneur qu'il avait acquis." Masses and motets belonging to his See also:Roman period are found in the Vatican library, and in the archives of various churches in Rome; others were published. Thus the See also:work entitled Missae tres a Claudio Goudimel praestantissimo musico auctore, nunc primum in lucem editae, contains one mass by the learned editor himself, the other two being by Claudius Sermisy and Jean Maillard respectively. Another collection, La Fleur See also:des chansons des deux plus excellens musiciens de nostre temps, consists of See also:part songs by Goudimel and Orlando di See also:Lasso. See also:Burney gives in his See also:history a See also:motet of Goudimel's Domine quid mulliplicati sunt.

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