Louis van Pullaer

Louis van Pullaer, born in Cambrai around 1475 and died in the same city on 21 September 1528, was a choirmaster and composer from the Southern Netherlands whose career unfolded between Cambrai, Liège and Paris. His training began at Cambrai Cathedral, where by 1485 he was already listed as a choirboy, and where he remained as a singer until October 1494.

In the middle of 1495 he was in charge of the boys' choir at the church of St Denis in Liège. In 1503 he returned to Cambrai and, in April of that year, took over the direction of the cathedral choir, succeeding his former teacher, Denis de Hollain. His tenure there was brief: he was dismissed in April 1507 for neglecting his duties, although in June of the same year he was appointed director of the choir of Notre Dame in Paris, a post he held from the end of December. During his Parisian period he received a benefice at Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois in 1509 and took part as a singer in the funeral service for Anne of Brittany in 1514.

He remained at Notre Dame until 1527, the year in which he returned to Cambrai as a canon of the cathedral. His musical legacy centres on the Mass "Christus resurgens", for four voices, which parodies the homonymous motet by Richafort and freely modifies the pre-existing material.