Guillaume de Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut was a French composer, poet, writer and songwriter (1300–1377). He was born at Reims.

Guillaume de Machaut in brief

Born
1300
Died
1377
Known for
composer, poet, writer and songwriter
Place of birth
Reims
Contents

Work and production

Works recorded as notable number 8: Œuvres poétiques de Guillaume de Machaut, Messe de Nostre Dame, La louange des dames, Hoquet David, Le dit du cheval, Le dit de l'alerion, Le dit du cerf blanc and Le dit de la rose. His recorded genres are ars nova, dit, lay, virelai and rondeau.

Identity

What the record establishes about Guillaume de Machaut.

Bibliothèque nationale de France records 1 object associated with this heading. Guillaume de Machaut is recorded as composer, poet, writer and songwriter. Guillaume de Machaut is recorded with the citizenship of France. Open Library catalogues 54 works under this name.

Authority records

The identifiers under which Guillaume de Machaut may be traced in institutional catalogues.

Guillaume de Machaut is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q200580.

Catalogued works

45 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Open Library.

Messe de Nostre Dame. Hoquet David. Douce Dame Jolie. Œuvres poétiques de Guillaume de Machaut, dated 1400, held by Bibliothèque nationale de France, inventory Français 1586. Le remede de Fortune. Le jugement du roi de Navarre. Le livre du voir dit. La louange des dames. Le lay de plour. Le dit du cheval. Le dit de l'alerion. Le dit du cerf blanc. Le dit de la rose. Le dit de la fleur de lis et de la marguerite. Le dit de la marguerite. Le dit du vergier. Le dit de la harpe. La prise d'Alexandrie. La fontaine amoureuse. Le confort d'ami. Le dit du lyon. Le jugement dou roy de Behaigne. The Ferrell-Vogue Machaut Manuscript. Documents inédits sur la grande peste de 1348. Sharps, flats, and scribes. Les œuvres de Guillaume de Machault. Le livre du Voir-dit ... ou sont contées les amours de messire Guillaume de Machaut et de Peronnelle, dame d'Armentières, avec les lettres et les réponses les ballades, lais, et rondeaux dudit Guillaume et de ladite Peronnelle. [Literary and musical works]. [Collection of literary and musical works. [Collection of poems, ballades, complaintes, lays, etc.]. [Collection of musical and literary works. Quatre dits. Ballades. Hē katalēpsē tēs Alexandreias. 10 secular works. Ma fin est mon commencement. Poésies lyriques. Livre Du Voir Dit. Messe Notre-Dame. The Judgement of the King of Navarre. Messe Notre-Dame, à 4 voix égales, transcrite par Jacques Chailley. Lob der Frauen. Mass of Notre Dame and Lays. Le livre de la fontaine amoureuse. The Boethian poems.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Bibliothèque nationale de France: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

6 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Machaut, Guillaume de. Machaut [Machau, Machault], Guillaume de, Oxford Music Online, 2001. 6. Death: Remembering Machaut, Guillaume de Machaut, 2019. 3. Creation: Machaut Making, Guillaume de Machaut, 2019. Guillaume de Machaut: Notation and the Compositional Process, Anuario Musical, 2001. Chant et enchantement dans l’œuvre de Guillaume de Machaut. Métamorphoses du risque et du désir, Revue des Langues Romanes, 2014.

Naming and authority record

This heading is established in Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) (10053978-6) and Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) (500318944). Those registers additionally record the form Ensemble Guillaume de Machaut de Paris.

Digitised editions and texts

3 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut (1911) — Internet Archive. Le livre du Voir-dit de Guillame de Machaut où sont contées les amours de Messire Guillaume de Machaut & de Peronnelle dame d'Armentieres, avec les lettres & les réponses, les ballades, lais & rondeaux dudit Guillaume & de ladite Peronnelle. Pub. sur trois manuscrits du XIVe siècle par la Société des bibliophiles françois (1875) — Internet Archive. Œuvres de Guillaume de Machaut (1908) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 54 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 7 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 7 means 7 genuinely separate publishers of record. 11 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

the recorded working language is French.

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are ars nova, dit, lay and virelai. The authority associates the name with classical music and medieval music.

Works named in the authority record are Œuvres poétiques de Guillaume de Machaut, Messe de Nostre Dame, La louange des dames, Hoquet David, Le dit du cheval and Le dit de l'alerion.

Work by Guillaume de Machaut is recorded in the collections of print collection of the national Library of BAnQ.

Chronology

  1. 1300Guillaume de Machaut born at Reims.
  2. 1300Guillaume de Machaut was born in 1300 at Reims.
  3. 1377Guillaume de Machaut died at Reims.
  4. 1377Guillaume de Machaut died in 1377 at Reims.
  5. 1400Œuvres poétiques de Guillaume de Machaut (Bibliothèque nationale de France).

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    3. Creation: Machaut Making, Guillaume de Machaut, 2019

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    6. Death: Remembering Machaut, Guillaume de Machaut, 2019

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Guillaume de Machaut, Oxford Art Online, 2003

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Machaut [Machau, Machault], Guillaume de, Oxford Music Online, 2001

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Machaut, Guillaume de

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Open Library author record for Guillaume de Machaut (Internet Archive), 54 catalogued works.

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

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  7. 7.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 9 articles naming Guillaume de Machaut.

    open access index · Unverified

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  8. 8.

    Gemeinsame Normdatei 10053978-6, Ensemble Guillaume de Machaut.

    authority file · Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

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  9. 9.

    Getty Union List of Artist Names 500318944, Guillaume de Machaut.

    authority file · Unverified · The Getty Research Institute

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  10. 10.

    Internet Archive, 39 digitised items catalogued under Guillaume de Machaut as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  11. 11.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 191 works naming Guillaume de Machaut.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  12. 12.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q200580: Guillaume de Machaut

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

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  13. 13.

    “Guillaume de Machaut”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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