Life

Machaut was probably born & educated around Rheims. He wwhen listed as secretary to John, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, from 1323 to 1346; in addition he became the priest sometime during this cycle. Virtually all in all likelihood he accompied King John in his various trips, numbers of of the babies military expeditions, about Europe. He wwhen known as as a canon of Verdun in 1330, Arras in 1332 and Rheims in 1333. By 1340 Machaut was living in Rheims, with relinquished his more canonic posts at a asking of Pope Benedict XII. Inside 1346, King John was killed fight at a Battle of Crécy, & Machaut, world health organization was celebrated & lot sought after, entered a service of various more patrician and rulers including a new King Charles V.

Machaut survived a Black Death which devastated Europe, & spent his late years sleep in Rheims composing and recopying his manuscripts. Manifestly he experiencefive hundred the late romance by using the 19-month-old girl, Péronne d'Armentières, which he immortalized around his autobiographical verse form Le Voir Dit (probably 1361-1365). Whenever he died around 1377, other composers like François Andrieu wrote elegies lamenting his dying.

Poetry

His poetic output includes deuce big rounds, Le Remèfirst state delaware Fortune (A Therapeutic of Ailment Fortune) & Le Voir Dit (The True Story).

Music

Machaut was far and away a best known composer of the 14th century. His laic song output includes monophonic lais and virelais, which continue, around updated forms, occasionally of the tradition of the troubadors. But, his function in the polyphonic forms of the ballade and rondeau was more important historically.

Machaut too wrote a number one Mass which can be attributed to one composer, his Messe delaware Nostre Dame (Mass of My Lady).