Adam de la Halle

French composer Adam de la Halle wrote the medieval morality play Le Jeu de Robin et Marian, the principal secular work of the 13th century and one of the most extensive musical compositions of the entire Middle Ages; it is sometimes referred to as a "medieval opera." Adam was also an acclaimed poet; he composed chansons, rondeaux, and virelai in a crude kind of polyphony. Often cited as "the last of the Trouvères," Adam spent most of his life in his native Arras, but died in Naples in the retinue of Robert II, Count of Artois.