Alexandre Gallot
Alexandre Gallot
Genres: 17th century, french
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About Alexandre Gallot
Alexandre Gallot (c.1625–1684) was a seventeenth-century French lutenist and composer, distinguished in modern authority files by the sobriquet “Vieux Gallot d’Angers.” He belonged to a family of professional musicians and was the brother of the lutenist and composer Jacques Gallot, known as Gallot le vieux or Gallot de Paris, whose printed works occupy a prominent place in the French lute repertory. Alexandre Gallot’s surviving footprint is encountered chiefly through the manuscript tradition rather than through printed collections. A key documentary window onto his music is the so-called Milleran lute manuscript (BnF, Rés. 823), a substantial anthology of late seventeenth-century lute pieces. Within this manuscript context, several items are explicitly associated with “V. Gallot d’Angers,” providing a secure basis for attributing named works to Alexandre Gallot.
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