Guillaume de Machaut

✶January 1, 1300

†January 1, 1377

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About their life

Guillaume de Machaut was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music. His dominance of the genre is such that modern musicologists use his death to separate the ars nova from the subsequent ars subtilior movement. Regarded as the most significant French composer and poet of the 14th century, he is often seen as the century's leading European composer.

Medieval French composer and poet (c. 1300–1377)

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