Gautier de Coincy (1177–1236), French abbot, poet, and musical arranger
It is based on the story of the same name by Anatole France in his collection L'Étui de nacre, which was in turn based on a 13th-century medieval legend by Gautier de Coincy, c.
The music of Chanter me fet was used in two different readings of Pour la pucele en chantant me deport by Gautier de Coincy and the lyrics were a model for the anonymous Destroiz d'amours et pensis sans deport.
He was active in the Île-de-France in the first decades of the thirteenth century at the latest, since his song De chanter me semont Amours was used as the basis for a contrafactum, Quant ces floretes florir voi, by Gautier de Coincy (died 1236).
Théophile Gautier | Gautier de Coincy | Gautier Capuçon | Judith Gautier | Theophile Gautier | Philippe Gautier | Gautier d'Espinal | Gautier de Metz | Color plate by Jacques Gautier d'Agoty, showing some of the muscles of the head. Part of a series of illustrations from Myologie complete en couleur et grandeur naturelle (1746) with texts by French physician and anatomist Guichard Joseph Duverney |