Claude Goudimel

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Claude Goudimel (c. 1514 to 1520 – between August 28 and August 31, 1572) was a French composer, music editor and publisher, and music theorist of the Renaissance. Claude Goudimel was born in Besançon. Few details of his life are known until he is documented in Paris in 1549, where he was studying at the University of Paris; in that year he also published a book of chansons. In the early 1550s he worked with printer Nicolas Du Chemin, and may have still been studying at the University of Paris until 1555; by 1555 he was also Du Chemin's partner in the publishing business. Goudimel moved to Metz in 1557, converting to Protestantism, and is known to have been associated with the Huguenot cause there; however he left Metz due to the increasing hostility of the city authorities to Protestants during the Wars of Religion. First he settled in his native town of Besançon, and later moved to Lyon. He was murdered in Lyon sometime between August 28 and 31, 1572, during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, along with much of the Huguenot population of the city. Goudimel is most famous for his four-part settings of the psalms of the Genevan Psalter, in the French versions of Clément Marot. In one of his four complete editions he puts - unlike other settings at the time - the melody in the topmost voice, the method which has prevailed in hymnody to the present day. In addition he composed masses, motets, and a considerable body of secular chansons, almost all of which date from before

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Psaumes de la Reforme

The Borgia Dynasty

Sweelinck: Organ Works

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Venezia Millenaria

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World of Early Music

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Divine Amarillis: Airs de Court

French Psalms of Catholics & Huguenotes

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Goudimel - Genevae Psalter (Les Cent Cinquante Psaumes De David, Quatuor Vocibus, 1565 - Renaissance for Steel Guitar)

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A Renaissance Christmas

The Ear of the Huguenots

Goudimel : Mass, 6 Psalms & Sweelinck : Keyboard Works

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