Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Binchois

Binchois. A celebrated French composer between the years 1400 and 1460. He is cited by Gaffori, as being, together with Dunstable, Caron, Regis, Dufay, and Brasart, one of those musicians, who, at the commencement of the fifteenth century, gave a great impulse to the art of counter-point, and were, in fact, the precursors of the masters of the Flemish school.