title: Guillaume Le Heurteur
text: # Guillaume Le Heurteur
  
  Guillaume le Heurteur (also found under the form Guillaume Heurteur and Guillaume Hurteur) was a French composer of the Renaissance about whom very little is known.
  
  ## Life
  
  Also a canon and preceptor of the choirboys of the Collegiate church Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours as evidenced by the title page of a collection of motets published in the same year, Le Heurteur was the author of four masses, two Magnificats, twenty-one motets and twenty-three songs, published between 1530 and 1549, mainly by Pierre Attaingnant, printer in Paris.
  
  ## Sources and biography
  
  Very little information is available on Guillaume le Heurteur. His name is quoted by François Rabelais in the second prologue to the Le Quart Livre [fr], published in 1552, alongside those of Josquin des Prés, Pierre de La Rue and Jean Mouton.
  
  