Marin Mersenne and Nicolas Hotman described him as the first French viol virtuoso, in particular, improviser of diminutions.
Ausmultiplikation (literally, "multiplying-out") is a German term used by the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen to describe a technique in which a long note is replaced by shorter, "melodic configurations internally animated around central tones", resembling the ornamental technique of divisions (also called "diminutions") in Renaissance music.