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Swiss composer (b Baden, 1500; d Berne, 1550). He attended the school attached to St Vincent’s, Berne, until 1511, and in 1524 became Kantor there. After the Reformation the post was discontinued and Alder held various clerk’s positions in Berne that gave him financial security. In 1534 he became a house owner and in 1538 a member of the Great Council. He died of the plague.