1361
Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet (born 1291)
Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet (born 1291)
Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet (born 1291)
Philippe de Vitry
French composer, poet and music theorist (1291–1361)
- Died
- 1361
Philippe de Vitry was a French composer-poet, bishop and music theorist in the ars nova style of late medieval music. An accomplished, innovative, and influential composer, he was widely acknowledged as a leading musician of his day; the early Renaissance scholar Petrarch wrote a glowing tribute, calling him: "... the keenest and most ardent seeker of truth, so great a philosopher of our age." The important music treatise Ars nova notandi (1322) is usually attributed to Vitry.