Hayne van Ghizeghem

Hayne van Ghizeghem was a leading member of the Burgundian Court under Charles the Bold . . . as musician, chamber valet and soldier. Charles had shown an interest in the lad in 1456 even before Charles became Duke in 1467. In that year Hayne is listed as singer and valet de chambre and subsequently as a soldier at the Siege of Liège in 1468 and of Beauvais in 1472. Neither his birth nor death date is known, but in the elegy on the death of Ockeghem (d. 1497), Hayne is depicted as one of the musicians welcoming him into heaven. Of the few works by Hayne that are extant, the best known is probably the rondeau, “De tous biens playne” that appears as the basis for arrangements by other composers including Josquin and Compère.