Gilles Binchois
Gilles de Bins or
Binchois (c.
1400 -
September 20,
1460), an early 15th-century Franco-Flemish composer evidently named after his birthplace,
Binche, near
Mons. He was esteemed by contemporary and later theorists as second only to
Dunstable and
Dufay.
This entry is based on the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica article.