Pierre de la rue short biography
Pierre de la rue music!
Pierre de la rue short biography pdf
la Rue, Pierre de
Renaissance church composer (called also Peter van Straten, Petrus de Vico, Pierchon); b. probably Tournai, Belgium, c. 1460; d. Courtrai, Nov. 20, 1518. He was a singer and member of the Brotherhood of Our Lady,'s Hertogenbosch (1489–92), and a chaplain and singer of the Burgundian-Hapsburg court at Brussels and Malines (1492–1516) where he served Maximilian of Austria, Philip the Fair, Margaret of Austria, and Charles V.
He participated in many journeys of the court, including those to Spain in 1501–02 and 1506.
Pierre de la rue short biography
In 1516 he took up residence at the chapter of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Courtrai, where he held a canonry, and died there. His known compositions include 31 Masses, 7 Mass movements, 7 Magnificats, 23 motets, and about 35 secular songs to French and Flemish texts.
Most of his works survive in MS, among them splendidly illuminated choirbooks of the Netherlands court chapel and the Papal chapel. Petrucci printed a volume of five of his