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
Credo L'amour du moi - Patrem omnipotentem
4
Jena Choirbooks , D-Ju MS 8
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 Incessament mon pauvre coeur
5
Jena Choirbooks , D-Ju MS 5
Missa Inviolata
4
Jena Choirbooks , D-Ju MS 7
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
Or Missa pascale ; Jena Choirbooks , D-Ju MS 5
Missa Sancta Anna
4
Jena Choirbooks , D-Ju MS 7
Missa Sancto Job
4
Jena Choirbooks , D-Ju MS 7
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
Works in French
Works in other languages
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Publications
Misse Petri de la Rue , 4vv (Venice, 1503)
External links