Pierre Guédron
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Pierre Guédron, was a French
singer and composer
known for writing Airs de cour
(including Cessés mortels de soupirer).
Guédron's Est-ce Mars (1613) was especially popular and is known in versions by Sweelinck
(keyboard), Scheidt
(5 part strings) and Vallet
(4 lutes of different sizes).
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
singer and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
known for writing Airs de cour
Air de cour
The Air de cour was a popular type of secular vocal music in France in the very late Renaissance and early Baroque period, from about 1570 until around 1650...
(including Cessés mortels de soupirer).
Guédron's Est-ce Mars (1613) was especially popular and is known in versions by Sweelinck
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe, and his work as a teacher helped establish the north German organ...
(keyboard), Scheidt
Samuel Scheidt
Samuel Scheidt was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era.-Biography:...
(5 part strings) and Vallet
Nicolas Vallet
Nicolas Vallet was a Dutch lutenist and composer of French birth.Vallet, a Huguenot, was born at Corbeny, Aisne, but fled from France to the Netherlands for religious reasons...
(4 lutes of different sizes).
Editions available
- There is a large CNRS library edition of Air de cour.
- Garland published a facsimile of the original print which is now out of print.