Surname
Gallicet
Given Name
Guillaume
Active period
1533 - 1548
Workplace
Le Vivier-en-Brie
Institution
Sainte-Chapelle de Vivier-en-Brie
Biography
Guillaume Gallicet occupait encore l'emploi de chantre <taillev dans la Chapelle royale au moment de la mort de Francois ler, en 1547. Ii fut l'un des officiers du feu Roi auxquels furent delivrds des vetements de deuil pour les obseques. Il en est de meme pour Louis Herault, dit Servissas, devenu sous- maitre, conjointement avec Claudin de Sermisy, dans l'intervalle entre 1533 et 1547. Les variantes qui se font remarquer sous le rapport de l'orthographe des noms, dans les diverses copies du compte des fundrailles de Frangois Ier 6), ont induit en erreur les dcrivains qui ne les avaient
Brobeck 1995, p. 193
Jean Mouton and "Claude de Servyzy" (Claudin de Sermisy), head the main list of chantres. They are followed by Gilles Charpen- tier, who sang for both Anne of Brittany and Pope Leo X before entering the Chapelle du roi.'3 Next named on the chapel roster are the distinguished composers Mathieu Gascongne and Antoine Divitis. The sixth musician cited, Guillaume Gallicet, performed with the royal chapel to the end of Francis's reign, acquiring a canonicate at the Sainte-Chapelle of Vivier-en-Brie along the way. From 1533 to 1548 he sang tenor in the Chapelle de musique and also directed the newly formed Chapelle de plainchant.'4
NOTE
Gallicet is listed among the polyphonists in the 1533 and 1547 chapel rosters; his name also heads lists of the singers of the Chapelle de plainchant for the years 1533 and 1535 (the latter list, which appears in B.N. f.frq. MS 2964, fols. 43-45, is transcribed in Brobeck, "The Motet," 573). According to Guillaume Du Peyrat, now lost accounts of the menus plaisirs of the court named Gallicet the master of the chant chapel on a yearly basis from 1543 to 1548 (Du Peyrat, L'Histoire ecclisiastique, 474)- In 1534 he held a canonicate at the Sainte-Chapelle of Vivier-en-Brie (A.N. L 629, no. i).
Brobeck 1995, p. 193
Jean Mouton and "Claude de Servyzy" (Claudin de Sermisy), head the main list of chantres. They are followed by Gilles Charpen- tier, who sang for both Anne of Brittany and Pope Leo X before entering the Chapelle du roi.'3 Next named on the chapel roster are the distinguished composers Mathieu Gascongne and Antoine Divitis. The sixth musician cited, Guillaume Gallicet, performed with the royal chapel to the end of Francis's reign, acquiring a canonicate at the Sainte-Chapelle of Vivier-en-Brie along the way. From 1533 to 1548 he sang tenor in the Chapelle de musique and also directed the newly formed Chapelle de plainchant.'4
NOTE
Gallicet is listed among the polyphonists in the 1533 and 1547 chapel rosters; his name also heads lists of the singers of the Chapelle de plainchant for the years 1533 and 1535 (the latter list, which appears in B.N. f.frq. MS 2964, fols. 43-45, is transcribed in Brobeck, "The Motet," 573). According to Guillaume Du Peyrat, now lost accounts of the menus plaisirs of the court named Gallicet the master of the chant chapel on a yearly basis from 1543 to 1548 (Du Peyrat, L'Histoire ecclisiastique, 474)- In 1534 he held a canonicate at the Sainte-Chapelle of Vivier-en-Brie (A.N. L 629, no. i).