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Maillard, Jean (Maillard)

fl. 1530’s–1560’s

Jean Maillard was a French composer active between the late 1530’s and about 1570. He seems to have been associated with the royal court of France, for in addition to his chansons he also composed two books of motets that were dedicated to King Charles IX and to Catherine de' Medici. On Maillard's motet books and their royal audiences, see Jean Maillard, Modulorum Ioannis Maillardi . . .: The Four-Part Motets, ed. Raymond H. Rosenstock, Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 73 (Madison: A-R Editions, 1987) and Ibid., Modulorum Ioannis Maillardi . . .: The Five-, Six-, and Seven-Part Motets, 2 vols., ed. Rosenstock, Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance, 95-96 (Madison: A-R Editions, 1993). Marie-Alexis Colin and Frank Dobbins, “Maillard, Jean,” New Grove 2, XV, 637-38