Guillaume Belin

French composer
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Quick Facts

IntroFrench composer
PlacesFrance
wasMusician Composer Singer
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Male
Instruments:Voice
Birth1500
Death3 December 1568 (aged 68 years)
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Biography

Guillaume Belin (? - 1568) was a French Renaissance singer and composer. His known compositions of chansons date to about 1539. Pieces by Belin were included in two of the volumes of "New Songs with Four Parts" published in 1543 and 1544 in Paris by Pierre Affeingnant and Hubert Jullet. He is known to have been employed as a singer at the Chapelle royale circa 1547. He was later at the Sainte-Chapelle where he set music to "Hymns of the Bible" in French. He died the year 1568.

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