Adam de la Halle

Adam de la halle
Adam de la halle
Miniature in musical codex

Adam de la Halle, (1240–1287), also known as Adam le Bossu (Adam the Hunchback), was a French trouvère, poet and musician. Adam’s literary and musical works include chansons and jeux-partis (poetic debates) in the style of the trouvères; polyphonic rondel and motets in the style of early liturgical polyphony; and a musical play, Jeu de Robin et Marion (c. 1282–83), which is considered the earliest surviving secular French play with music.  He was a member of the Confrérie des jongleurs et bourgeois d’Arras.