Guillaume Du Fay
Composer of the Renaissance (1397–1474)
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The first musician whose primary job description was "composer." Du Fay spent the 1400s hopscotching between papal choirs, ducal courts, and cathedral posts across Europe, writing motets and masses that everyone copied and sang — the sound that defined what "Renaissance music" would become.
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Probably the illegitimate son of a priest, Du Fay was educated at Cambrai Cathedral under Nicolas Grenon and Richard Loqueville, then worked his way across Europe as subdeacon, priest, and musician — Rimini, Pesaro, Bologna. By 1428 his reputation landed him in the papal choir in Rome under Martin V and Eugene IV, where he wrote motets including Ecclesie militantis and Supremum est mortalibus. He took leave in the 1430s to serve Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, then returned to Italy in 1436 to compose Nuper Rosarum Flores for the consecration of Brunelleschi's Florence Cathedral dome — his most a…
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- Le Prince d'amours2021
- Lament for Constantinople & Other Songs2019
- Motets, Hymns & Chansons2015
- The Masses For 14532014
- Dufay & the Court of Savoy2009
- Motets, Vol.2: Supremum est mortalibus bonum2008
- Mille Bonjours !2007
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