Pierre Dandrieu (d'Andrieu) (baptised in
Angers
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on 21 March 1664 – 20 October 1733) was a
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priest, composer and
organist
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.
Life
Pierre Dandrieu was baptised in Angers. After studying with
Lebègue, he held the organ of , now destroyed, on the
île de la Cité
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in Paris, for more than 40 years. His nephew
Jean-François Dandrieu
Jean-François Dandrieu, also spelled D'Andrieu (c. 168217 January 1738) was a French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist.
Biography
He was born in Paris into a family of artists and musicians. A gifted and precocious child, he gave hi ...
succeeded him to this same gallery in 1733.
Dandrieu died in Paris on 20 October 1733.
Works
Pierre Dandrieu published around 1714 a book of 42 and various pieces for the organ (mainly) or harpsichord, published again between 1721 and 1733 (c. 1725 according to the
BnF) :
:NOELS. / O Filii, Chansons de Saint Jacques, / Stabat Mater, et Carillons. / Le Tout Revû augmenté / et Extrêmement Varié, et mis pour L’Orgue / Et pour le Claveçin. / par Mr. Dandrieu / Prêtre et Organiste de St. Barthelemy / À Paris. (s. d.)
:1. ''À la Venue de Noel''
:2. ''Une Jeune Pucelle''
:3. ''Chantons je vous prie Noel hautement''
:4. ''Or nous dites Marie''
:5. ''Joseph est bien Marie''
:6. ''Voici le jour Selemne''
:7. ''Je me suis Levé''
:8. ''Marchons, Marchons Gaïement''
:9. ''Adam ou est tu''
:10. ''Chretien qui Suivez l’Eglise''
:11. ''Nous Sommes en voïe''
:12. ''Puer nobis Nascitur''
:13. ''Grace soit rendüe a Dieu de la Sus''
:14. ''Savez-vous mon cher Voisin''
:15. ''Mais ou san est allé Nau''
:16. ''Quand je M’Eveillai et eus assez dormi''
:17. ''Chantons je vous prie''
:18. ''Vous qui desirez Sans fin''
:19. ''Noel cette Journée''
:20. ''Quand le Sauveur Jesus-Christ fut né de Marie''
:21. ''Sortons de nos Chaumines''
:22. ''Joseph tu fus bien Joyeux''
:23. ''Chantons de voix Hautaine''
:24. ''Noel pour l’Amour de Marie''
:25. ''Laissez paitre vos bestes''
:26. ''Tous les Bourgeois de Châtres''
:27. ''Chantons je vous prie Noel hautement''
:28. ''Quoi ma voisine es tu fâchée''
:29. ''Allons voir ce divin gage''
:30. ''Michau qui causoit ce grand Bruit''
:31. ''Une Bergere Jolie''
:32. ''Le Roy des Cieux vient de Naître''
:33. ''Ou s’en vont ces gais Bergers''
:34. ''A minuit fut fait un Reveil'' on MusOpen
:35. ''A minuit fut fait un Reveil''
:36. ''Jacob que tu es habile''
:37. ''Si c’est pour ôter la Vie''
:38. ''Stabat mater''
:39. ''O Filii et Filiæ''
:40. ''Chanson de Saint Jacques''
:41. ''2e Chanson''
:42. ''Carillon ou Cloches''
Several of these pieces were later taken back and reworked (by his nephew
Jean-François ?), and published in 1759, more than 20 years after the nephew's death.
He also published 3 arias in ''Recueils d'airs sérieux et à boire'' at Ballard, in Paris: ''Mes yeux par leur langueur extrême'' (August 1697), ''L'amour s'est fait pour la jeunesse'' and ''Petits oyseaux sous ces feuillages'' (April 1699).
Sources
*
Honegger, Marc et al. ''Dictionnaire de la Musique : Les Hommes et leurs Å“uvres'', Paris, Bordas, 1970.
* GALLICA.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
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, Music department, VM7-1839.
Persée (web portal)Notes on Roger Hugon's
Roger Hugon on Symétrie
/ref> modern reprint in 1979.
* David Fuller. "Dandrieu." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, accessed 12 October 2017.
See also
* List of French harpsichordists
This article lists France, French composers who wrote for the harpsichord during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Chronology
1640–1710: Beginnings of harpsichord music in France
*Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629–1691)
*Jacques Champion ...
* French organ school The French organ school formed in the first half of the 17th century. It progressed from the strict polyphonic music of Jean Titelouze (c. 1563–1633) to a unique, richly ornamented style with its own characteristic forms that made full use of ...
*
References
External links
*
Pierre Dandrieu
on MusOpen
Pierre Dandrieu (1664-1733)
on Midiorg.com
Pierre Dandrieu
on AllMusic
Pierre Dandrieu
on Data.bnf.fr
Pierre Dandrieu - ''O Filii et Filiae''
on YouTube
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French Baroque composers
French classical organists
Composers for harpsichord
17th-century French composers
18th-century French composers
18th-century French male musicians
1664 births
1733 deaths
17th-century French male musicians
French male classical organists