WRITER

Guillaume de Machaut

1300 - 1377

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Guillaume de Machaut (French: [ɡijom də maʃo], Old French: [ɡiˈʎawmə də maˈtʃaw(θ)]; also Machau and Machault; c. 1300 – April 1377) was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the ars nova style in late medieval music. His dominance of the genre is such that modern musicologists use his death to separate the ars nova from the subsequent ars subtilior movement. Regarded as the most significant French composer and poet of the 14th century, he is often seen as the century's leading European composer.Machaut, one of the earliest European composers on whom considerable biographical information is available, has an unprecedented amount of surviving music, in part due to his own involvement in his manuscripts' creation and preservation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guillaume de Machaut has received more than 643,431 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Guillaume de Machaut is the 315th most popular writer (down from 274th in 2019), the 364th most popular biography from France (down from 320th in 2019) and the 58th most popular French Writer.

Guillaume de Machaut is most famous for composing the Messe de Nostre Dame in the 14th century.

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  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.61

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  • 3.04

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Notable Works

La Louange des dames
Drama
1972
The judgment of the King of Bohemia =
Fiction
1984
La messe de Nostre Dame
1973
Le livre du Voir dit"
1969
La prise d'Alexandrie
1877
Œuvres de Guillaume de Machaut
1908

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Over the past year Guillaume de Machaut has had the most page views in the with 60,110 views, followed by French (32,043), and Spanish (14,060). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Macedonian (49.56%), Icelandic (47.40%), and Simple English (47.38%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Guillaume de Machaut ranks 315 out of 7,302. Before him are Françoise Sagan, Ernst Jünger, C. S. Lewis, Gao Xingjian, Roger Martin du Gard, and Gertrude Stein. After him are Henri Charrière, Ludovico Ariosto, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Michael Ende, Czesław Miłosz, and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1300, Guillaume de Machaut ranks 1. After him are Gaykhatu, Nilüfer Hatun, Nogai Khan, Baydu, Johannes Tauler, Mesud II, Kayqubad III, Masamune, Jani Beg, Khutughtu Khan Kusala, and Guy de Chauliac. Among people deceased in 1377, Guillaume de Machaut ranks 2. Before him is Edward III of England. After him are Algirdas, Frederick the Simple, Urus Khan, Vladislav I of Wallachia, Al-Ashraf Sha'ban, and Richardis of Schwerin, Queen of Sweden.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume de Machaut ranks 364 out of 6,770. Before him are Édouard Daladier (1884), Adolphe Thiers (1797), Jean Renoir (1894), Roger Martin du Gard (1881), Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752), and Jean Buridan (1295). After him are Henri Charrière (1906), Pope Nicholas II (990), Philip the Bold (1342), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Nicolas Appert (1749), and Alain Prost (1955).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Guillaume de Machaut ranks 58. Before him are Colette (1873), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), Antonin Artaud (1896), Françoise Sagan (1935), and Roger Martin du Gard (1881). After him are Henri Charrière (1906), Ève Curie (1904), André Malraux (1901), Théophile Gautier (1811), Paul Éluard (1895), and Alphonse de Lamartine (1790).

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