Artist Info: Jacques Gallot

Jacques Gallot, known in seventeenth-century and modern scholarship as Gallot le vieux or Gallot de Paris, was a French lutenist and composer active during the middle decades of the seventeenth century. Authority consensus situates him broadly between circa 1600 and the later 1680s, with his activity firmly associated with Paris. He belongs to a documented musical family: he was the brother of Alexandre Gallot, himself active as a lutenist, and the [read more...]