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Guillaume de Machaut - Biography
Guillaume de Machaut was by far the most prestigious composer of his day and perhaps the first composer to lift music to an artistic status.Where was guillaume de machaut bornA learned priest and accomplished poet, Machaut took up and developed the old trouv�re song forms. Following troubadour tradition he wrote his own texts for his songs. His accessible and very beautiful music is representative of the "Ars Nova" style, which he enriched in many ways, not least in his rhythmic innovations.
Machaut produced both secular and liturgical music- ballades, rondeaux, and virelais, motets and Masses.
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To his writing he brought an expressiveness unknown in the "old art". With Machaut, music became not only a "new" art, but also a modern one.
Born near the year , possibly in Rheims, very little is known of Machaut's first two decades, except that early in life he took holy orders (we do know that he never advanced to the priesthood).
The Machauts may have derived their name from a town in