Jean Maillard

Most likely he lived and worked in Paris, based on evidence of his print editions, which were prepared there.

Maillard is mentioned by Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel, and also by Ronsard in his Livre des Mélanges (1560 and 1572).

He was evidently famous during his time, and many of his motets were used as source material for parody masses by composers as distinguished as Palestrina; in addition Lassus reworked some of his music.

Claude Goudimel also used a secular chanson of Maillard's as source material for a mass.

His Missa pro mortuis was an early Requiem mass setting, and one of the only examples from France in the 16th century.