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Guillaume Dufay
Born: 13th August 1397, Beersel, Belgium
Died: 27th November 1474, Cambrai, France
Nationality: Franco-Flemish
Guillaume Du Fay ( 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.
While he is among the best-documented composers of his time, Du Fay's birth and family is shrouded with uncertainty, though he was probably the illegitimate child of a priest. He was educated at Cambrai Cathedral, where his teachers included Nicolas Grenon and Richard Loqueville, among others.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Du_Fay
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Julian Podger on the music of Dufay
9th Feb 2023
The director of Gothic Voices talks about the group's new album of choral works from Florentine collections, including two of Dufay's most famous motets - Nuper rosarum flores and O tres piteulx.
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- Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys (8)
- Alma Redemptoris Mater (10)
- Apostolo glorioso (10)
- Ave maris stella (24)
- Ave regina celorum (11)
- Balsamus et munda cera (8)
- Bonjour, bon mois (9)
- Ce jour de l'an (10)
- Ce moys de may (rondeau) (8)
- Conditor alme siderum (6)
- Credo (5)
- Ecclesiae militantis (16)
- Flos Florum (14)
- Gloria (5)
- Gloria ad modem tubae (8)
- Hymn 'Veni Creator Spiritus' (9)
- J’atendray tant qu’il vous playra (6)
- Je me complains piteusement (10)
- La belle se siet (6)
- Lamentatio sanctae matris ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (6)
- Le Serviteur (7)
- Magnificat quinti toni (5)
- Mirandas parit hec urbs florentina puellas (5)
- Missa L'homme arme (14)
- Missa Sancti Jacobi (6)
- Missa Se la face ay pale (11)
- Nuper rosarum flores (11)
- O sancte Sebastiane (6)
- Par droit je puis bien complaindre (8)
- Puisque vous estez campieur (5)
- Quel fronte signorille in paradiso (10)
- Resveilliés vous et faites chiere lye (6)
- Rite majorem (5)
- Salve flos Tusce gentis (5)
- Se la face ay pale (17)
- Supremum Est Mortalibus (6)
- Urbs beata (7)
- Vasilissa, Ergo Gaude (6)
- Vergene bella (16)
- Vergine bella (7)
