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Guillaume Belin

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Guillaume Belin (? - 1568) was a French Renaissance singer and composer. His known compositions of chansons date to about 1539.[1] 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.[2] He is known to have been employed as a singer at the Chapelle royale circa 1547.[1] He was later at the Sainte-Chapelle where he set music to "Hymns of the Bible" in French.[2] He died the year 1568.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Pratt, Waldo Selden. The History of Music. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1907. 138.
  2. ^ a b Fétis, F. J. (1873). Biographie du Universelle des Musiciens (in French). Vol. 1 (2 ed.). Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Freres. p. 323.