Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer
George de la Hèle
Born1547
BirthplaceAntwerp
CountryFlanders
GenderMale
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George de La Hèle (also Georges, Helle, Hele) (1547 – August 27, 1586) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, mainly active in the Habsburg chapels of Spain and the Low Countries.
Among his surviving music is a book of eight masses, some for as many as eight voices.
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While he was a prolific composer during his time in Spain, much of his music was destroyed in 1734 in the burning of the chapel library in Madrid.
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