Goudimel be­gan writ­ing mu­sic while at­tend­ing the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Par­is. In 1551, he went to work as a proof­read­er for print­er Ni­co­las du Che­min. He event­u­al­ly be­came du Chemin’s mu­sic ed­it­or and part­ner for the next four years. Over the next de­cade, Gou­di­mel wrote num­er­ous mass­es, Mag­ni­fi­cats, and mo­tets, and har­mo­nized the Ge­ne­van Psal­ter. He moved to Metz around 1557, and lived there about 10 years. He be­came a Hu­gue­not around 1560.

• Hughes, p. 406
• Randel, p. 325

1. Berlin
2. Cantique de Si­mé­on
3. Cantique de Za­cha­rie