Adam de la Halle
French-born trouvère, poet and musician
Years: 1237 - 1288
Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu (Adam the Hunchback) (1237?–1288) is a French-born trouvère, poet and musician, whose literary and musical works include chansons and jeux-partis (poetic debates) in the style of the trouveres, polyphonic rondel and motets in the style of early liturgical polyphony, and a musical play, "Jeu de Robin et Marion", which is considered the earliest surviving secular French play with music.
He is a member of the Confrérie des jongleurs et bourgeois d'Arras.
