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CLAUDE GOUDIMEL

(1514 - 1572)

The French Huguenot composer Claude Goudimel was born in Besançon and died in the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. He was involved with contemporary French experiments in versification and word-setting. His settings of the Odes of Horace are lost.

Church Music

Goudimel is chiefly known for his settings of the Psalms, some dividing the melody between the voices, some keeping the melody in the top voice, and others placing the melody of the Genevan Huguenot Psalter in the tenor, to the harmony of the other voices.


Role: Classical Composer
Album Title	Catalogue No	Work Category

Discover Early Music	Naxos Educational 8.558170-71	Chamber Music, Vocal, Instrumental, Choral - Sacred, Choral - Secular, Vocal Ensemble
Psaumes de la Reforme	Naxos 8.553025	Choral - Sacred, Vocal Ensemble
Renaissance Music (Instrumental and Vocal) - LE ROY, A. / PRAETORIUS, M. / BASSANO, G. / PHALESE, P. (La Rocque' n' Roll) (Baltimore Consort)	Dorian Sono Luminus DOR-90177	Chamber Music, Vocal, Instrumental
SWEELINCK: Organ Works	BIS BIS-CD-1614	Instrumental
World of Early Music	Naxos 8.554770-71	Orchestral, Chamber Music, Vocal, Instrumental, Choral - Sacred, Choral - Secular, Wind Ensemble/Band Music, Opera

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