Pierre de la Rue, a composer from around 1500, spent the last twenty-six years of his life as a member of the Burgundian Habsburg court chapel.
Performer Biography
Beauty Farm, founded in 2014, is a vocal group focused on Franco-Flemish polyphony, whose singers are members of well-known ensembles like Capilla Flamenca and Huelgas Ensemble.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Pierre de la Rue's melancholic tone in many pieces is understood as part of the representational politics of his employer, Margaret of Austria, who emphasized her widowed status.
Compositional Technique
The Missa Almana by Pierre de la Rue is unique among his masses for having two "Christe" sections, one four-part and the other three-part.
Composition History
Two of the masses on this recording, Missa Almana and Missa Puer natus est, were published in 1503 by Ottaviano Petrucci, in the only edition dedicated solely to Pierre de la Rue at that time.
Compositional Technique
Pierre de la Rue's Missa Puer natus est nobis shows a balance between rich texture, achieved through imitative motives, and a subversive interest in asymmetry and sweeping lines.
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