Pierre Hugard () - Missa ’Redde Mihi Laetitiam’

★ Follow music ► Composer: Pierre Hugard () Work: Missa ’Redde Mihi Laetitiam’ (1761) Performers: Ensemble Accеntus; Laurence Equіlbеy (conductor) Missa ’Redde Mihi Laetitiam’ (1761) 1. Kyrie 0:00 2. Gloria 6:18 3. Credo 12:59 4. Sanctus 22:30 5. Agnus Dei 25:15 Painting: Louis Chéron (1660-1725) - Cupid and Psyche before Jupiter () HD image: Painting: Unknown artist (18th Century) - Allegoria della Musica HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Pierre Hugard (Paris?, - Paris?, after 1761) French composer active in Paris between 1740 and 1770. Almost nothing is known about his life. On the title-page of his Missa ‘Laudate pueri Dominum’ (1744) he is described as a spé in the choir of Notre Dame, Paris, ‘spé’ being a term often used for the head boy of a choir school kept on by the choirmaster after his voice had broken in order to study composition; he would also act as supervisor and coach to the younger pupils. Hugard would thus have been 18 or 19 years old in 1744. In 1761 Pierre-Robert-Christophe Ballard published the Missa ’Redde mihi laetitiam’, which he dedicated to ‘the venerable chapter of the cathedral of Paris’. The title-page says nothing about the composer’s function and duties at this date. Apparently he is not related with Pierre Hugard de Saint-Guy (1720?-1789), a composer active in Paris and Nantes and who wrote, at least, several symphonies, ouvertures and chamber music.