Guillaume de Machaut

Guillaume de Machaut was a poet and composer who lived during the Medieval period in France. His work was praised by Chaucer and has been maintained by scholars to be an important contribution to that era of music. He was a popular composer of both secular and sacred music, noted for his inventive premises and rhythmic styles. His secular music tended to center around the theme of courtly love, revealing Machaut to be one of the original hopeless romantics.