Pierre Hugard Explained

Pierre Hugard (1726–1761) was a French composer. He is best known for his Missa Redde mihi laetitiam.^[1]

References

Jean-Paul C. Montagnier, The Polyphonic Mass in France, 1600–1780: The Evidence of the Printed Choirbooks, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Notes and References

1. Early Music Review 1999 – Issues 47–56 – Page 29 ... Pierre Hugard except that he was a boy at the maitrise of Notre Dame de Paris. His voice was already broken when he published his first Mass in 1744: the one recorded here was published in 1761. It is for four voices in the a cappella style; ...