Jean (Jehan) Titelouze was a French Catholic priest, composer, poet and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He was a canon and organist at Rouen Cathedral.
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The city of Rouen in 1610. Titelouze spent most of his life here, working as organist of the Rouen Cathedral.
The Rouen Cathedral, where Titelouze worked from 1588 until his death in 1633.![Example 1. Opening bars of Titelouze's 3rd verset of Veni Creator. The hymn in the tenor is highlighted. The outer voices form a canon at the octave; in the other two canonic versets in the 1623/4 collection, Titelouze created canons at the fifth (and the hymn is in the soprano voice [Conditor], or bass [Ave maris stella]).](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Titelouze-veni-creator-3e.gif/500px-Titelouze-veni-creator-3e.gif)
Example 1. Opening bars of Titelouze's 3rd verset of Veni Creator. The hymn in the tenor is highlighted. The outer voices form a canon at the octave; in the other two canonic versets in the 1623/4 collection, Titelouze created canons at the fifth (and the hymn is in the soprano voice [Conditor], or bass [Ave maris stella]).
Example 2. Bars 10-13 from the second setting of Deposuit potentes from Magnificat primi toni. In this inversion fugue (the subject is highlighted with shades of blue), like in much of the rest of the collection, Titelouze's musical language is more progressive than in any of the 1624 hymns.Musicians from France 6
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Jean (Jehan) Titelouze was a French Catholic priest, composer, poet and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He was a canon and organist at Rouen Cathedral. His style was firmly rooted in the Renaissance vocal tradition and as such, was far removed from the distinctly French style of organ music that developed during the mid-17th century. However, his hymns and Magnificat settings are the earliest known published French organ collections, and he is regarded as the first composer of the French organ school.
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