Come On In
Guillaume Dufay (L) and
Gilles Binchois (R)
Guillaume Dufay (also Du Fay), 1397 – 1474) was a French composer and music theorist of the early Renaissance. Regarded as the leading European composer by his contemporaries, his music was widely performed and copied. Dufay was associated with the Burgundian School as well as among the first composers of the Franco-Flemish School.
His most famous and celebrated work, the motet Nuper Rosarum Flores, was written for the consecration of Filippo Brunelleschi’s dome on the Florence Cathedral and is considered an icon of Western culture.
Dufay left behind an extensive oeuvre, including pieces representative of virtually every genre of polyphonic music from his time.
