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La Halle, Adam de

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La Halle (or La Hale), Adam de (c. 1230–c. 1288)

French poet and composer. He was educated for the priesthood, but fell in love and married a young girl, whom he left to rejoin the Church at Douai around 1263. In 1282 he went to Naples with the comte d'Artois.

Works

the stage pieces Le Jeu d'Adam, ou de la feuillée and Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion (1285); motets; chansons.



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