Girard de Beaulieu

Choreography and overall direction were provided by the Italian dancing master Baltazarini, known as Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx.

Beaulieu's wife was the Genoese soprano and lutenist Violante Doria.

[3] They had a daughter Claude de Beaulieu who later was paid as a lutenist at the court.

The error concerning his name, and consequent separation of the bass singer and composer into two biographies, is due to an erroneous "Lambert de Beaulieu" in a letter by Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor to the French king attempting to employ the composer Beaulieu for his own court.

The error in Rudolf's letter was reproduced by François-Joseph Fétis in his influential Biographie universelle des musiciens.

Detail showing Girard de Beaulieu and his wife Violante Doria , from Jacques Patin 's engraving 'Figure de la Fontaine' in Balet comique de la Royne [ 1 ]