Louis Bourgeois (c.1510-1561)

Louis Bourgeois (c.1510-1561) was a French Renaissance composer and music theorist. He is most famous as one of the compilers of Calvinist hymn tunes in the middle of the 16th century (see Genevan Psalter).

His first publication, some secular chansons, dates from 1539 in Lyon. By 1545 he had gone to Geneva (according to civic records) and become a music teacher there. In 1547 he was granted citizenship in Geneva, and in that same year he also published his first four-voice psalms.

He worked on a collections of psalm-tunes from 1549-1550 and he is one of the three main composers of the hymn tunes to the Genevan Psalter, identified in the 1551 edition.

Unfortunately, he fell foul of local musical authorities and was sent to prison on December 3, 1551 for changing the tunes for some well-known psalms “without a license.” He was released on the personal intervention of John Calvin. Shortly after this incident, Bourgeois left Geneva to settle in Lyon, France and then in 1560 moved to Paris where a publisher produced a volume of secular chansons by the composer.

I Greet Thee Who My Sure Redeemer Art (Toulon, Organ, 5 Verses)
10 10 10 10 / Elizabeth Lee Smith (1817-1898) / Epiphany / Evensong / Genevan Psalter / Holy Week Wednesday / Hymn / John Calvin (1509-1564) / Louis Bourgeois (c.1510-1561) / Morning Prayer / Year B Easter 3 / Year B Proper 9, Ordinary 14, Trinity 5 / Year C Easter 3 / Year C Proper 11, Ordinary 16, Trinity 5 / Year C Proper 15, Ordinary 20, Trinity 9

I Greet Thee Who My Sure Redeemer Art (Toulon, Organ, 5 Verses)

I Greet Thee Who My Sure Redeemer Art Recording Tune: Toulon composed by Louis Bourgeois (1510-1561) and published by John

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Bread Of The World In Mercy Broken (Rendez A Dieu, Organ, 2 Verses)
98 98 D / Communion/Eucharist / Corpus Christi / Genevan Psalter / Hymn / Louis Bourgeois (c.1510-1561) / Maundy Thursday / Reginald Heber (1783-1826) / Rendez A Dieu / Year A Proper 13, Ordinary 18, Trinity 8 / Year A Proper 21, Ordinary 26, Trinity 16 / Year A Proper 7, Ordinary 12, Trinity 3 / Year B Proper 14, Ordinary 19, Trinity 10 / Year B Proper 16, Ordinary 21, Trinity 12 / Year C Lent 2 / Year C Lent 3 / Year C Lent 4 / Year C Proper 12, Ordinary 17, Trinity 6 / Year C Proper 6 Ordinary 11

Bread Of The World In Mercy Broken (Rendez A Dieu, Organ, 2 Verses)

Bread Of The World In Mercy Broken : Recording Tune: Rendez A Dieu composed by Louis Bourgeois (c.1510 – 1561)

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All People That On Earth Do Dwell
Ascension Day / Ash Wednesday / Candlemas - Presentation of Christ in the Temple / Descant / Easter Sunday / Easter Vigil / Epiphany / General / Genevan Psalter / Hymn / John Day's Psalter (1562) / LM (88 88) / Louis Bourgeois (c.1510-1561) / Old Hundredth / Philippians 4 / Psalm 100 / William Kethe (d. 1594) / Year A Advent 1 / Year A Easter 4 / Year A Feast of Christ The King / Year A Lent 4 / Year A Palm Sunday - Liturgy of The Palms and Liturgy of The Passion / Year A Proper 18, Ordinary 23, Trinity 13 / Year A Proper 23, Ordinary 28, Trinity 18 / Year A Proper 26, Ordinary 29, Fourth Sunday Before Advent / Year A Proper 6, Ordinary 11, Trinity 2 / Year A Thanksgiving Day USA / Year B Easter 4 / Year B Easter 5 / Year B Lent 4 / Year B Palm Sunday - Liturgy of The Palms and Liturgy of The Passion / Year B Proper 10, Ordinary 15, Trinity 6 / Year B Proper 25, Ordinary 30, Trinity 21, Last After Trinity / Year C Advent 3 / Year C All Saints' Day / Year C Easter 4 / Year C Easter 5 / Year C Easter 7 - Seventh Sunday of Easter / Year C Proper 13, Ordinary 18, Trinity 7 / Year C Proper 19, Ordinary 24, Trinity 23 / Year C Proper 23, Ordinary 28, Trinity 17 / Year C Proper 27 3rd Sunday before Advent / Year C Proper 7, Ordinary 12, Trinity 1 / Year C Thanksgiving Day USA

All People That On Earth Do Dwell (Old Hundredth, Organ and Descant, 5 Verses)

All People That On Earth Do Dwell : Recording Tune: Old Hundredth, composer: Louis Bourgeois (c.1510 – c.1561) a tune

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