Pierre Attaingnant (1494 - 1552)
France

France

Pierre Attaingnant (c.1494 ? late 1551 or 1552) was a French music printer, active in Paris. Attaingnant is considered to be the first to use single-impression movable type for music-printing, thus making it possible to print faster and cheaper than predecessors such as Ottaviano Petrucci. He published over 1500 chansons by many different composers. In this collections the Paris composers, like Claudin de Sermisy, Pierre Sandrin and Pierre Certon, are prominently present, but Clément Janequin i ... (Read all)
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