Du Gaucquier, Alard (…-1582). Chapelmaster; Musician; Singer

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