Guillaume Morlaye

Wikipedia: Guillaume de Morlaye (1510 – 1558) was a French Renaissance era lutenist, composer and music publisher. He was a pupil of Albert de Rippe and lived and worked in Paris.

In 1552 he received a ten-year license to publish music from Henry II, and between 1553 and 1558 published ten lute collections, six of them compiled by Albert de Rippe. He also published three books of his own four-course Renaissance guitar compositions during 1552–53, including fantasies and dances.

Besides his music publishing activities, Morlaye was reported to have engaged in the slave trade.

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