Gilles Binchois (c.
1400 -
1460), an early 15th-century Franco-Flemish composer evidently named after his birthplace,
Binche, near
Mons. He was esteemed by contemporary and later theorists as second only to
Dunstable[?] and
Dufay[?].
This entry is based on the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica article.