Claude goudimel biography

French composer, music editor and publisher

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Claude Goudimel was one of the most important French composers of the XVIth century.

Claude Goudimel was one of the most important French composers of the XVIth century.

Claude Goudimel was a French composer, editor, and publisher who is noted for his influential and popular settings of the metrical psalms.

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Goudimel was a student at Paris University in when his first chansons appeared in print.

Claude Goudimel was a French composer, music editor and publisher, and music theorist of the High Renaissance.

1514 to 1520 – between 28 August and 31 August 1572) was a French^[1] composer, music editor and publisher, and music theorist of the High Renaissance.

Biography

Claude Goudimel was born in Besançon, modern-day France, which at that time was a French-speaking imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire.

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 [fr], 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 auth