Surname
Du Gaucquier
Given Name
Alard
Variant Name
Du Gauquier
Date of death
1582
Role
Chapelmaster
Employee of a court chapel (musician)
Known voice range
Musician
Singer
Tenor
Active period
circa 1560 - 1582
Biography
Conversely, Alard Du Gaucquier, who was born about 1534, cannot have composed the motet but may well have written the madrigal, though no other secular music of his is known. He was, however, almost certainly the composer of the untitled four-voice mass ascribed to ‘Allardo musico caesareo’ (dated 1580 in D-As 19; ed. in Musica divina, xvi, Regensburg, 1962); it is in his style, and at the time of copying he had recently left the imperial chapel after many years of service, whereas Alardy had not been an ‘imperial musician’ since the abdication of Charles V in 1556. BIBLIOGRAPHY