Antoine Busnois

Manuscript of Missa O Crux Lignum, a Mass by Busnois. The date is not certain but probably mid-15th century.
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Antoine Busnois (also Busnoys; c. 1430 – before 6 November 1492) was a French composer, singer and poet of early Renaissance music. Busnois and colleague Johannes Ockeghem were the leading European composers of the second half the 15th century, and central figures of the early Franco-Flemish School.[1]

While also noted as a composer of motets and other sacred music, he was one of the most renowned 15th-century composers of secular polyphonic chansons. Between Guillaume Du Fay and Claudin de Sermisy, Busnois was the most prolific and important French composer of songs.[1]

  1. ^ a b Higgins 2001, § "Introduction".