Rudolf of St Trond (also Rodulf, Rodolfus, Rodolphe, Radulphus, Rudolph, or Raoul, c. 1070–1138) was a Benedictine abbot of St Trond Abbey, chronicler and composer.Radulphus of St. Trond
A musical treatise Quaestiones in musica was attributed to him by the musicologist Rudolf Steglich;Rudolf Steglich, Die Quaestiones in musica: ein Choraltraktat des zentralen Mittelalters und ihr mutmasslicher Verfasser, Rudolf von St Trond (1070–1138) (Leipzig, 1911/R) another suggestion is Franco of Liège.Dolores Pesce, The Affinities and Medieval Transposition (1987), pp. 39-40.
He wrote a chronicle Gesta Abbatum Trudonensium, on the abbots of his abbey, beginning in 999;Sources it is included in the Paleographie musicale and the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. His description of monastic life includes details of musical practice and training methods of Guido of Arezzo. Historian Henri de Lubac wrote that he showed "a very exacting and almost combative idea of historical truth."Medieval Exegesis (1988 translation), p. 73.
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