Pierre Guédron

Pierre Guédron (c. 1570 in Châteaudun – ca. 1620 in Paris), 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).

Works

• 6 bookss of Airs de cour à quatre et cinq parties
• Airs de différents autheurs mis en tablature de luth
• 1602: Ballet sur la Naissance de Monseigneur le duc de Vendosme
• 1610: Ballet de Monseigneur le duc de Vendosme oder Ballet d’Alcine
• 1613: Ballet de Madame
• 1614: Ballet des Argonautes
• 1615: Ballet du Triomphe de Minerve
• 1615: Ballet de Monsieur le Prince
• 1617: Ballet du Roy ou Ballet de la Délivrance de Renaud
• 1618: Ballet des Princes
• 1619: Ballet du Roy sur L’Adventure de Tancrède en la forest enchantée

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.

External links

• Pierre Guédron on Data.bnf.fr