Guillaume Costeley

frontispiece of the 1570 print

Aliases: Guillaume Coteley; Guillaume Cauteley – The spellings Coteley & Cauteley suggest the pronunciation of his last name. His first name is occasionally and probably erroneously given as William.

Life

Born: c. 1531

Died: 28 January 1606

Biography: Costeley's birth date is inferred from the portrait "in his 39th year" in the 1570 print of his Musique although this of course does not rule out an earlier date. In spite of a contemporary biographer giving Fontanges-en-Auvergne as his birthplace, there have been more or less fanciful attempts to claim him for Scotland or Ireland. His work began to be included in Parisian anthologies from 1554 and by 1560 he had been appointed organist and valet de chambre to Charles XI. Costeley settled in Normandy soon after the appearance of his 1570 collected works and no later compositions are known.

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List of choral works

Adieu, monde, puis qu'en toy Allez mes premières amours Allon, gay bergeres Approche toy (La Prise du Havre) Le clerc d'un avocat L'ennuy, le dueil

Hardis Françoys (La Prise de Calais) Je ne veux plus penser Las, Je n'eusse jamais pensé Mais que sert la richesse a l'homme Mignonne, allons voir Nous voyons que les hommes

Perrette disait Jean Quand l'ennuy facheux Quand le berger vit la bergère Sus debout La terre les eaux va buvant

 
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Publications

• Musique de Guillaume Costeley, organiste ordinaire et vallet de chambre du treschrestien et tresinvincible Roy de France. Charles IX. (Paris, 1570, reprinted 1579).

External links

• Works by Guillaume Costeley in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)