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French composer

Loys "Louis" Bourgeois (French:[buʁʒwa]; c. 1510 – 1559) was a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance.

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He is most famous as one of the main compilers of Calvinisthymn tunes in the middle of the 16th century. One of the most famous melodies in all of Christendom, the tune known as the Old 100th, to which the Protestantdoxology is often sung, is commonly attributed to him.

Life

Knowledge of his early life is sparse. 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.

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In 1547 he was granted citizenship in Geneva, and in that same year he also published his first four-voice psalms.

In 1549 and 1550 he worked on a collections of psalm-tunes, most of which were translated by Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze.

The extent to which he was composer, arranger or compiler was not certain, u