Artus Aux-Cousteaux

Artus Aux-Cousteaux was a French singer and composer, active in Picardy and Paris.
He was born in Picardy in either Beauvais or Saint-Quentin. His family coat of arms contains a pun on his name; it is Azur à trois cousteaux, d'argent garnis d'or.
He was a singer in the church of Noyon, of which fact there is a record in the library of Amiens. Then he became Maistre de la Sainte Chapelle at Paris. According to the preface to Antoine Godeau's 1656 psalter published by, he was an haute-contre in the chapel of Louis XIII.
He left many masses and chansons, all printed by of Paris. His style is remarkably in advance of his contemporaries, and François-Joseph Fétis believes him to have studied the Italian masters.