Pierre Clereau

Aliases: Pierre Cléreau; Petrus Cler'eau – "Pierre Clereau" in Phalesius

Life

Born: fl. 1539-1567

Died: before 1570

Biography Clereau's first chansons appeared in print in 1539. The 1554 title pages call him choirmaster at Toul.

View the Wikipedia article on Pierre Clereau.

List of choral works

• Comment au départir
• Content ou non
• M'amie a eu de dieu le don
• Missa Cantantibus organis
• Missa Cecilia virgo
• Sans lever le pied

 
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Publications

• Missae quatuor cum quatuor vocibus (Paris, 1554)
• Missae pro mortuis, cum duobus motetis, 4vv (Paris, 1554)
• Missa, 4vv, ad imitationem missae Virginis Mariae condita (Paris, 1557) — questionable attribution to Clereau: more confidently attributed to Pierre de Manchicourt
• Premier livre de chansons tant françoises [23] qu’italiennes [5] à trois parties (Paris, 1559, 1566 as Premier livre d’odes de Ronsard)
• Dixiesme livre de chansons tant françoises [16] qu’italiennes [4] (Paris, 1559)
• Second livre d'odes de Ronsard (Paris, 1566/7) – exists only as fragments
• Cantiques spirituels, 4vv (Paris, 1567)
• Les odes de Pierre de Ronsard (Paris, 1575; reprinted 1619) – combines both volumes

External links

• Works by Pierre Clereau in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)