2.1.+Guillaume+du+Fay

= = =BIOGRAPHY = 

He was born probably in Cambrai (France), then, famous for his religious music, toward 1397. He sang and studied music at the cathedral of Cambrai and because of that, among other things, he supplied musicians to the Vatican.

In 1419 the Prince Carlo Malatesta hired him as a musician in the court of Rimini (Italy). There he composed his first motets and also he was a singer in the Pope chapel. In 1428 priest was sorted. He stayed close to the court of Savoy in 1428.

Until 1433 he stayed in Rome, and he kept on going round in Geneva, Florence, Chambéry... In Lausana he was appointed canon of the cathedral in 1431.

There he composed several pieces, like the //Nuper rosarum flores //  motet, in 1436, for be interpreted in the inauguration of the dome Brunelleschi of Florence. In Borgonya he knew Gilles Binchois and just after he decided to stop traveling. He returned to Cambrai in 1439 and served in the cathedral of the city until his death, right there on 27 November 1474.

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//O sancte Sebastiane//
media type="youtube" key="mRsDgtqtx5Q" height="344" width="425"  In this video you can listen l'Homme Armé, a pice crearte by Guillaume du Fay.  -The letter was in the French that spoke in the Renaissance. -There are men and wemen's voices. -There isn’t any instrument. -There are two voices.

Enric Casademont Ferrés 4rt ESO C