Also known as Guillaume Du Fay
composer of the Renaissance (1397–1474)
Guillaume Dufay was a highly influential French-Flemish composer who lived from 1397 to 1474 and helped define the sound of Renaissance music. His works, which included sacred compositions and secular songs, established new musical techniques and styles that shaped European music for generations to come.
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Du Fay (left) beside a portative organ, with Gilles Binchois (right) holding a small harp in a miniature from before 1451. See § Portraits
Guillaume Du Fay (/djuːˈfaɪ/ dyoo-FEYE, French: [ɡijom dy fa(j)i]; also Dufay, Du Fayt; 5 August 1397 – 27 November 1474) was a composer and music theorist of early Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered the leading European composer of his time, his music was widely performed and reproduced. Du Fay was well-associated with composers of the Burgundian School, particularly his colleague Gilles Binchois, but was never a regular member of the Burgundian chapel himself.
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Guillaume Dufay (most probably 1397 - 1474) was an early renaissance composer, and the first of many polyphonic masters from the Low Countries (modern Belgium, the Netherlands, and northern France). He was not an innovator, with the exception of a few late works, and wrote within a stable tradition. He was one of the last composers to make use of mediaeval techniques such as isorhythm, but one of the first to use the harmonies, phrasing, and expressive melodies characteristic of the early Renai
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