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Guillaume de Machaut, sometimes spelt Machault (c.1300–1377), was an important mediaeval 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 fifteenthth century, Machaut’s poetry was greatly admired and imitated by other poets including Geoffrey Chaucer. Machaut is also the most celebrated composer of the 14th century; he composed in a wide range of styles and forms and his output was enormous. He was the most famous and historically significant representative of the musical movement known as the ars nova. Machaut was especially influential in the development of the motet and the secular song (particularly the formes fixes, the lai, virelai, and ballade). Machaut wrote the Messe de Nostre Dame, the earliest complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass attributable to a single composer, and influenced composers for centuries after his death.
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  • ulyssestone

    Just 26 hours of Guillaume de Machaut in one Spotify playlist. From more than 60 albums, including New York Polyphony's new paraphrase of My End Is My Beginning. http://www.spotifyclassical.com/2012/04/guillaume-de-machaut-complete.html

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  • Atomizer_

    the Ensemble PAN recording of Le Remède De Fortune is excellent, maybe the best recording of his work I've heard

    March 2012

  • xzwqt

    <+frussif> look at all the losers in the shoutbox

    January 2012

  • arlaqin

    and one of the greatest of all time

    December 2011

  • amebixxx

    fucking excellent!

    December 2011

  • fredlol

    The greatest musician of his time

    November 2011

  • NixEverAfter

    He just died 700 years ago and he's on tour, that guy is amazing. :D

    November 2011

  • Dedran

    No modern composer could ever create music like this. All the plastic attempts to create "ancient" music by Dead Can Dance, Arcana and the like are a joke by comparison.

    November 2011
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