Alard Du Gaucquier

Biography

Alard du Gaucquier (also known as Alardus Nuceus) was a 16th-century Franco-Flemish singer and composer associated with the Habsburg imperial chapel, where he is documented in modern scholarship as a senior court musician and chapelmaster. His surviving music is best known through two major prints: the Venetian Magnificat octo tonorum (1574, RISM G576), presenting Magnificat settings across the eight tones, and the Antwerp Plantin Quatuor missae quinque, sex et octo vocum (1581, RISM A/I G 577), a collection of four masses later cited as dedicated to Archduke Matthias. He died in 1582, and his works continue to appear in modern performances and recordings of late Renaissance Habsburg and Low Countries repertory.

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