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Loys Bourgeois
12+ albums
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Loys "Louis" Bourgeois (c.1510–1560) was a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is most famous as one of the main compilers of Calvinist hymn tunes in the middle of the 16th century. One of the most famous melodies in all of Christendom, the Protestant doxology known as the Old 100th, is commonly attributed to him. Next to nothing is known about his early life. His first publication, some secular chansons, dates from 1539 in Lyon. By 1545 he had gone to Geneva (according to civic records) and become a music teacher there. In 1547 he was granted citizenship in Geneva, and in that same year he also published his first four-voice psalms. In 1549 and 1550 he worked on a collections of psalm-tunes, most of which were translated by Clement Marot and Théodore de Bèze. The extent to which he was composer, arranger or compiler was not certain, until a long-lost copy of the Genevan Psalter of 1551 came to the library of the Rutgers University. In an Avertissement (note) to the reader Bourgeois specifies exactly what his predecessors had done, what he had changed and which were his own contributions. He is one of the three main composers of the hymn tunes to the Genevan Psalter. Unfortunately, he fell foul of local musical authorities and was sent to prison on December 3, 1551 for changing the tunes for some well-known psalms "without a license." He was released on the personal intervention of John Calvin, but the controversy continued: those who had already learned
top songs
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O gladsome light
1992Psalm 134 (Or sus, serviteurs du Seigneur)
323Old 100th / All People that on Earth do Dwell
274Psalm 134: Or sus, serviteurs du Seigneur
195Psalm 134, Or sus, serviteurs du Seigneur
196Warum willst du draussen stehen
177Le cantique de Simeon
118Las, en ta fureur aigue (Ps. 19)
99Je t'aymeray en toute obeissance
810Estans assis aux rives aquatique
8albums
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Rutter: A Double Celebration
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Lighten Our Darknesss - Music for The Close Of Day
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Classical Carols Collection
Paul Gerhardt personlich
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Norton Recorded Anthology Of Western Music - Volume 1 (Disc 3)
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Norton Recorded Anthology Of Western Music - Volume 1 [Disc 3]
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La Rocque 'n' Roll - Popular Music of Renaissance France
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Chansons et Psaumes de la Réforme
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Geh aus, mein Herz
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Norton Recorded Anthology Of Western Music: Vol. 1 (Disc 3)
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Vocal Music - L'Estocart, P. / Morlaye, G. / Lassus, O. / Le Roy, A. / Goudimel, C. (Vocal Music of the French Reformation)
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Renaissance Music (Instrumental and Vocal) - Le Roy, A. / Praetorius, M. / Bassano, G. / Phalese, P. (La Rocque' N' Roll)