Personne : Pierre Guédron

  • Sujet Grove Music Online
    Objet Jonathan LE COCQ : 'Guédron, Pierre', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 18 March 2004), http://www.grovemusic.com :
    "Guédron [Guesdron], Pierre (b province of Beauce, Normandy, ?after 1564; d ? Paris, 1619–20). French composer, singer and singing teacher. A reference to his voice breaking while among the singers of the chapel of the Cardinal of Lorraine at the Puy d'Evreux in 1583 suggests that he can hardly have been born before 1565. After the cardinal’s assassination in 1588, he joined the royal chapel. Two years later, when Henri IV reorganized the court musical establishment, he was transferred permanently to the secular sphere, in the first place as maître des chanteurs de la chambre. Then began an impressive rise through court musical circles. In 1601, he succeeded Claude Le Jeune as compositeur de la chambre du roi and in 1603 was described in addition as valet de chambre du roi and maître des enfants de la musique (he sold the latter title in 1613 to his son-in-law, Antoine Boësset, with a heavy discount by way of dowry). In 1604 he appears to have become maître en la musique de la chambre de sa majesté, and to have achieved the supreme position of surintendant des musiques de la chambre du roi in 1613. In 1617 he occupied the same office in the musical establishment of the queen mother. His last book of airs (1620) was published posthumously under Boësset’s supervision; he must therefore have died earlier that year or late in 1619. He was widely admired as a singer, teacher and composer during his lifetime […] He was married to Gillette Duguay (Dugué), but there is no evidence of any of their eight or more children (three of them boys) having pursued musical careers."
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