Jean-Baptiste Dupuits

If he had not composed music for the vielle, or the harpsichord accompanied by the hurdy-gurdy, perhaps more would have been known about Dupuits. His teaching was considered exceptional from what has been discovered. Many of his pieces incorporated the harpsichord and the vielle but his two grand motets remain in tact and indicate a musician who had a keen understanding of musical development (even with the vielle). He pushed the proverbial envelope on the vielle and his ten movement "Quam dilecta" was composed involving a variety of methods. Dupuits also composed sonatas for flutes and violins which brought the world of music to the very emergence of the courtly style in elegance. ~ Keith Johnson