Guillaume Boni ( – ) was a French

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...

composer. Boni was choirmaster at

Saint-Étienne Cathedral Saint-Étienne Cathedral (french: Cathédrale Saint-Charles-de-Borromé de Saint-Étienne) is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo, in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France. It has been the cathedral of the Diocese of Saint-Éti ...

from 1565 until his death after 1598.Kate Van Orden ''Music, discipline, and arms in early modern France'' 2005 p. 150. Like

Anthoine de Bertrand Antoine de Bertrand (also Anthoine) (1530/1540 – probably 1581) was a French composer of the Renaissance. Early in his life he was a prolific composer of secular chansons, and late in his life he wrote hymns and canticles, under the influence of ...

, he was born in Auvergne and working in

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Works

* ''Psalmi Davidici novis concentibus sex vocibus modulati cum oratione Regia 12. voc'' Paris: Le Roy * ''Chansons de

Ronsard Pierre de Ronsard (; 11 September 1524 – 27 December 1585) was a French poet or, as his own generation in France called him, a "prince of poets". Early life Pierre de Ronsard was born at the Manoir de la Possonnière, in the village of C ...

'' His works were known in England since a work of Boni's is the only identifiable foreign work found in the Willmott and Braikenridge manuscripts of Latin church music, 1591.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boni, Guillaume 16th-century French composers French male composers French composers of sacred music 1530s births 1590s deaths