Pierre Guédron (c. 1570 in Châteaudun – c. 1620 in Paris), was a French singer and composer.

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).

Pierre Guédron

Works

6 books 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.

Pierre Guédron

References

French male classical composers

French Baroque composers

French ballet composers

Renaissance composers

People from Châteaudun

1570s births

1620s deaths

17th-century classical composers

17th-century male musicians

Pierre Guédron