1405–1449) was a French composer of the early Renaissance, active in Flanders, Italy, and France.
He was one of the first composers in writing polyphony to distinguish between passages for solo and multiple voices on each part.
[1] Nothing is known about his early life, but his real name (Lemacherier) suggests a French origin.
While no musical activity of his has been documented in France, he had been given benefices there, in the diocese of Rouen.
[1] Most of the composers of the period wrote in another of formes fixes, the rondeau, but Legrant seems to have preferred the virelai, which had been set widely the century before.