Charles d'Helfer

Charles d'Helfer (1598–1661) was a French baroque composer and maître de musique at Soissons Cathedral.

His masses follow a strict one syllable per note style.

He is best remembered for his requiem for four voices of 1656[1][2] which was used for the funeral of composer Michel Richard Delalande in 1726[3] and was the basis of Julien-Amable Mathieu (1734-1811) and François Giroust's requiem mass for Louis XV in 1775.

[4][5] Jean-Paul C. Montagnier, The Polyphonic Mass in France, 1600-1780: The Evidence of the Printed Choirbooks, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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