Philippe de Vitry

French composer, music theorist and poet

1291 CE to 1361 CE

Philippe de Vitry (31 October 1291 – 9 June 1361) is a French composer, music theorist and poet.

He is an accomplished, innovative, and influential composer, and may also have been the author of the Ars Nova treatise.

He is widely acknowledged as the greatest 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."

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