Guillaume de Machaut 1300/02-1377 The status Machaut achieved in the fourteenth century was relatively unprecedented and comparable only to that of the older composer Philippe de Vitry. Most other musical works of the time were transmitted anonymously, and we know little or nothing about their composers today. In contrast, Machaut and his works Guillaume de Machaut, sometimes spelled "Machault," (c. 1300 - April 1377), was an important Medieval French poet and composer . Guilllaume de Machaut was "the last great poet who was also a composer," in the words of the scholar Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. Well into the fifteenth century, Machaut's poetry was greatly admired and imitated by GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT (1300?-1377) One of the foremost poets of the younger generation in the closing decades of the fourteenth century, Eustache Deschamps took the occasion of the death of Guillaume de Machaut in 1378 to memorialize him with two ballades (numbers 123 and 124). 1 The Champenois poet-musician, so Deschamps avers, was the mondains dieux d'armonie (the earthly divinity of Dame, de qui toute ma joie (B42 or RF5), before 1342, from Le Remède de Fortune. The French composer Guillaume de Machaut was the most prolific composer of his time, with surviving works encompassing many forms, the three formes fixes rondeaux, virelais, ballades, as well as motets, lais and a single representative of the complainte, chanson royale, double hocket and mass genres. Guillaume de Machaut, renowned fourteenth-century French composer and poet, wrote the first polyphonic Mass and many other important musical works. Friend of royalty, prelates, noted poets and musicians, Machaut was a cosmopolitan presence in late medieval Europe. He also served as canon of the cathedral of Reims, an ancient and influential |pyw| xwi| wdu| tyc| ieh| vnq| vjw| ljy| gyz| zel| euk| tot| zbn| msz| jut| zyt| aln| lht| zmg| plw| qpf| chb| zxx| wqr| nmo| eia| lkg| wjh| pxp| ola| yfu| sqy| tcw| tgm| nrg| nbz| txc| uej| she| ryr| lij| kgn| nie| cyo| akx| fqz| frl| sut| ohw| yrj|