# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johannes-ockeghem
# Generated: 2026-09-02T00:27:50.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johannes-ockeghem"
name: "Johannes Ockeghem"
slug: "johannes-ockeghem"
description: "A Franco-Flemish composer who bridged the gap between Du Fay and Josquin, Ockeghem wrote some of the most technically audacious music of the 15th century — including a Mass that works in any mode and the earliest surviving polyphonic Requiem."
tagline: "Franco-Flemish composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anonymous_-_Portrait_of_a_Musician%2C_64.54.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1410"
deathDate: "1497-02-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.65
  momentum:             1.434860185479036
  historical:           23.715596
  currentAttention:     6.91358024691358
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Musicians"
    slug: "musicians"
  - name: "Singer / Musician"
    slug: "singer-musician"
  - name: "Classical"
    slug: "classical"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
    slug: "medieval-era"
platforms:
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5bk4CYx5KyU34CeJmoJEaO"
    handle:    "5bk4CYx5KyU34CeJmoJEaO"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q143059"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Johannes%20Ockeghem"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81_%D0%9E%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BC"
    title: "Іаханес Окегем"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Johannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Johannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Johannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Johannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%87%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%82_%CE%8C%CE%BA%CE%B5%CE%B3%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%BC"
    title: "Γιοχάνες Όκεγχεμ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Johannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Johannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Johannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Johannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%87%DA%AF%D9%85"
    title: "یوهانس اوکهگم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Johannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_de_Okeghem"
    title: "Johannes de Okeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Johannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%A1_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%9B%D7%9D"
    title: "יוהנס אוקכם"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Johannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%85%D5%B8%D5%B0%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B6%D5%A5%D5%BD_%D5%95%D5%AF%D5%A5%D5%A3%D5%A5%D5%B4"
    title: "Յոհաննես Օկեգեմ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Johannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Johannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%83%8F%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B1%E3%82%B2%E3%83%A0"
    title: "ヨハネス・オケゲム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9A%94%ED%95%98%EB%84%A4%EC%8A%A4_%EC%98%A4%EC%BC%80%EA%B2%9C"
    title: "요하네스 오케겜"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iohannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Iohannes Ockeghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johannes_Ockeghem"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/614358f7-a30d-40c0-b9fe-659c1612410d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/833198"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%85"
    title: "يوهانس أوكيغهيم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%85"
    title: "يوهانس أوكيجهيم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 1410, Ockeghem rose to prominence in the second half of the 15th century alongside Antoine Busnois as a leading figure of the early Franco-Flemish School. He spent most of his career in the service of three French kings — Charles VII, Louis XI, and Charles VIII — moving through the royal court as both composer and singer. His surviving output is small, likely a fraction of what he created: around 14 masses, 20 chansons, and fewer than 10 motets, with exact counts clouded by attribution debates. The works that remain show a composer drawn to structural puzzles — the canon-dense Missa prolationum, the mode-flexible Missa cuiusvis toni, the chanson Fors seulement. When he died on 6 February 1497, the loss reverberated: Erasmus, poets Guillaume Crétin and Jean Molinet, and Josquin des Prez himself mourned him, Josquin composing Nymphes des bois in his memory.