Pierre Attaingnant
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Pierre Attaingnant (c.1494 – late 1551 or 1552) was a French music printer, active in Paris.
Life
Attaingnant is considered to be the first to use movable type for music-printing, thus making it possible to print fast and cheap. 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 is at the top of the list with five books of chansons, dedicated to his chansons only. He acquired royal privileges for his music books, which were renewed many times. Eventually he was named imprimeur et libraire du Roy en musique (Royal music-printer and librarian).Works
Apart from his many collections of chansons, which have titles like: Chansons nouvelles en musique à quatre parties, Paris 1528 (this is the first of over 35 similar collections) or Vingt et Sept chansons musicales à quatre parties, Paris 1533, he also published books with pieces in lute or keyboard tablature, as well as Masses and motets.
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