Pierre de la Rue

Alias: Petrus de La Rue

Life

Born: ca. 1452

Died: 20 November 1518

Biography

French Renaissance composer. La Rue's life before the beginning of his employment by the Hapsburg court in 1492 is a mystery; c. 1452 as a plausible birthdate seems to be based on his parents' marriage.

View the Wikipedia article on Pierre de la Rue.

List of choral works

New Grove list 33 masses, 6 Credos and a Kyrie, 7 Magnificats, 24 motets (not including contrafacta), and 24 chansons. Another 25 works have conjectural attributions, and there is a longer list of dubious and misattributed works.

Title	Voices	Comments
Absalon, fili mi (Josquin des Prez)	4	the attribution to La Rue is the more fashionable
Amicus fidelis	2	Missing from New Grove
Autant en emporte le vent	4
Ave Regina caelorum	4	contrafact Ave apertor caelorum
Considera Israel	4	2nda pars Doleo super te
Da pacem Domine	4
Delicta juventutis	4
Diligite inimicos vestros	2	Missing from New Grove
Filioli, si quis peccaverit	2	Missing from New Grove
Frange esurienti panem tuum	2	Missing from New Grove
Gaude Virgo	4
Incessament mon povre cueur lamente	5
Kyrie Paschale a 5	5	Jena Choirbooks, D-Ju MS 4
Lauda anima mea Dominum	4	Ps. CXLVI
Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes	4
Lief, begheeft mij niet	4
Magnificat i toni	4–6
Magnificat ii toni	4
Magnificat iv toni	4	another Mag. quarti toni is attributed to La Rue, Josquin, Brumel or Agricola
Magnificat v toni	4
Magnificat sexti toni	5
Magnificat vii toni	4
Magnificat viii toni	4
Maria mater gratiæ	5	Missing from New Grove
Miserere mei	2	Missing from New Grove
Missa Ave sanctissima Maria a 6	6	Jena Choirbooks, D-Ju MS 4 and 5
Missa Conceptio tua	5	Jena Choirbooks, D-Ju MS 5
Missa feria a 5	5	Jena Choirbooks, D-Ju MS 5
Missa L'homme armé II	4	Jena Choirbooks, D-Ju MS 2
Missa Ista est speciosa	5	Jena Choirbooks, D-Ju MS 2
Missa O gloriosa Domina Margareta	4	Jena Choirbooks, D-Ju MS 5
Missa pro defunctis	5
Missa Resurrexit	5	Jena Choirbooks, D-Ju MS 5
Missa Sub tuum præsidium		In Misse Antonii de Févin etc. (Ottaviano Petrucci), 1515
Missa Tandernaken	4
Myn hert altyt heeft verlanghen	4
Ne temere quid loquaris	2	Missing from New Grove
Non salvatur Rex	2	Missing from New Grove
O domine Jesu Christe	4
O salutaris hostia	4	See also Wir danken dir
Pater de caelis deus	6	Trinity
Pourquoi non	4
Quis dabit pacem	4	Text lost
Regina caeli	4
Salve mater salvatoris	4
Salve Regina	4	? 1 of 6 (all dorian and a 4; I is canonic, IV alternatim)
Sancta Maria virgo	3
Si dormiero	3	Ascriptions to Isaac, Agricola and Finck
Vexilla Regis - Passio Domini	4
Wir danken dir, o Gottes Lamm	4	Contrafact of O Salutaris

Works in Latin

Amicus fidelis Ave Regina caelorum Considera Israel Da pacem Domine Diligite inimicos vestros Filioli, si quis peccaverit Frange esurienti panem tuum Gaude Virgo Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes

Magnificat ii toni Magnificat iv toni Magnificat sexti toni Magnificat vii toni Maria mater gratiæ Miserere mei Missa de Beata Virgine Missa Ista est speciosa Missa Nunca fue pena mayor

Missa pro defunctis Missa Tandernaken Ne temere quid loquaris Non salvatur Rex O salutaris hostia Pater de caelis deus Salve Regina Salve Regina II Vexilla Regis - Passio Domini

Works in French

Autant en emporte le vent Incessament mon povre cueur lamente

Pourquoi non Secretz regretz

Soubz ce tumbel: Epitaphe de l'amant vert Tous les regretz

Works in other languages

Lief, begheeft mij niet

Myn hert altyt heeft verlanghen

Wir danken dir, o Gottes Lamm

 
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Publications

• Misse Petri de la Rue, 4vv (Venice, 1503)

External links

• Works by Pierre de la Rue in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)