Simon le Breton

(Cambrai, 12 Nov 1473). French composer and singer. He was at the Burgundian chapel by January 1431 until 1464, when he retired to a canonry he held at Cambrai Cathedral. He was a colleague of Binchois and Dufay. A three-voice rondeau and a Flemish song are probably his. He may possibly be identified with Simon de Insula (fl c 1450-60), a composer possibly from Lille, although the latter's four-voice mass cycle is stylistically different from the other works.