Estienne du Tertre (fl. mid-16th century) was a French composer. He spent most of his life in

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and worked as an editor for the publisher

Attaingnant Pierre Attaingnant (or Attaignant) (c. 1494 – late 1551 or 1552) was a French music publisher, active in Paris. Life Attaingnant is considered to be first large-scale publisher of single-impression movable type for music-printing, thus making it ...

. Many of his

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s were published. Du Tertre published in 1557, giving us the first use of the term " suite", although the usual form of the time was as pairs of dances.

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* 16th-century French composers French male composers {{France-composer-stub