Artist Info: Pierre Attaingnant

Pierre Attaingnant (ca. 1494-ca. 1551) was a French music printer, publisher, and bookseller.

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.



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