The French composer Guillaume de Machaut was the most prolific composer of his time, with surviving works encompassing many forms, the three formes fixes rondeaux, virelais, ballades, as well as motets, lais and a single representative of the complainte, chanson royale, double hocket and mass genres.
Most of his extant output is secular music, a notable exception being the renowned Messe de Nostre Dame.
Furthermore, some of Machaut's works (most notably the motets) employ simultaneous performance of several different texts.
Machaut was the first composer to concentrate on self-anthologization of his works, supervising the creation of three complete-works manuscripts during his life.
Thus, occasionally Le Remède de Fortune works are given their own category and catalogued according to the order of their appearance: