Guillaume de Machaut
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“Many a fine, noble estate / Lay idle without those to work it,” wrote the poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut, who weathered the plague by hiding locked up in his tower.
From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022
A 14th-century ballade by Guillaume de Machaut set up György Ligeti’s hazy, briery “Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg,” from 1982.
From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2020
They began with three works by the 14th-century composer Guillaume de Machaut: a rondeau, a ballade and a motet, arranged by Ari Streisfeld, one of the JACK’s violinists.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2010
Examples of musical labyrinths can be found in abundance in the choral music of Guillaume de Machaut, a composer-poet working in northern France in the mid-fourteenth century.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Guillaume de Machaut was its champion and its paragon.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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