Gilles Mureau

French composer and singer of the Renaissance, born c. 1450, died in July 1512. Boy singer at the Chartres cathedral in 1462, he became choirmaster of the boys in the Chartres choir school in 1469, then in 1472 he became a canon. Between March and November 1483 he made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, being replaced in his duties by the young Antoine Brumel. The following year Mureau made another pilgrimage, this one to Santiago de Compostela. He is listed by Eloy d'Amerval, in his long 1508 poem Le Livre De La Deablerie, as one of the great composers of the age, resident in Paradise – even though he was still alive. Only four of his compositions survive, all rondeaux.