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, né probablement à Machault, près de Reims, vers 1300 et mort à Reims en 1377, est un compositeur et écrivain français du XIVe siècle. Il a mené une vie dans le monde laïc, au service de mécènes et en liens étroits avec la Couronne de France. Il a aussi mené une vie ecclésiastique en tant que chanoine de Reims. Clerc lettré et maître ès arts, il a marqué pendant au moins un siècle la production artistique européenne.
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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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