Legrant, Guillaume, active 1405-1449

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
לגראן, גיום
Name (Latin)
Legrant, Guillaume, active 1405-1449
Other forms of name
Legrant, Guillaume, 14th-15th cent
Le Grant, Guillaume, active 1405-1449
Legrant, Guillaume, fl. 1405-1449
Lemacherier, Guillaume, active 1405-1449
Date of birth
1405
Date of death
1449
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 64192400
Wikidata: Q1172936
Library of congress: no2010105153
Sources of Information
  • Early fifteenth-century music. II, 1959:t.p. (Guillaume Le Grant)
  • Grove Music Online, June 29, 2010(Legrant (Lemacherier), Guillaume; fl 1405-49; French composer. His true name was Guillaume Lemacherier)

Wikipedia description:

Guillaume Legrant (Guillaume Lemacherier, Le Grant) (fl. 1405–1449) was a French composer of the early Renaissance, active in Flanders, Italy, and France. He was one of the first composers in writing polyphony to distinguish between passages for solo and multiple voices on each part.

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