Antoine Cartier

Antoine Cartier (fl. 1550’s–1588). Some 29 chansons for three and four voices are ascribed to Cartier in publications of Du Chemin and Le Roy et Ballard. Cartier worked as organist to the church of St. Séverin in the Latin Quarter of Paris between 1570 and 1588. Cartier was active in France during the 1550’s too, for in 1557 the firm of Le Roy et Ballard published a book of three-voice chansons by him, the Vingt et une chansons nouvellement composées à trois parties par M.