Guillaume de Machaut
Medieval French composer and poet (c. 1300–1377)
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Guillaume de Machaut was a French composer and poet who lived from around 1300 to 1377 and is considered one of the most important musical figures of the medieval period. He matters because he pioneered new musical forms and techniques that helped shape the development of Western music, and his works—which blended sophisticated poetry with complex melodies—remain influential examples of medieval artistic achievement.
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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 w
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Machaut (right) receiving Nature and three of her children. From an illuminated Parisian manuscript of the 1350s
Guillaume de Machaut ( French: [ɡijom də maʃo], Old French: [ɡiˈʎawmə də maˈtʃaw(θ)]; also Machau and Machault; c. 1300 – April 1377) 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.