Philippe de Vitry
French composer, poet and music theorist (1291–1361) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Philippe de Vitry (31 October 1291 – 9 June 1361) 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, with Petrarch writing a glowing tribute, calling him: "... the keenest and most ardent seeker of truth, so great a philosopher of our age."[1] The important music treatise Ars nova notandi (1322) is usually attributed to Vitry.
"de Vitry" redirects here. For other uses, see Vitry.
It is thought that very little of Vitry's compositions survive; though he wrote secular music, only his sacred works are extant.[2]