Louis Bourgeois

French composer and music theorist

1510 CE to 1560 CE

Loys "Louis" Bourgeois (c. 1510 to 1560) is a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance.

He is most famous as one of the main compilers of Calvinist hymn tunes in the middle of the 16th century.

One of the most famous melodies in all of Christendom, the Protestant doxology known as the Old 100th, is commonly attributed to him.

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