Johannes Ockeghem
Franco-Flemish composer
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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.
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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 Miss…
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- Complete Songs Volume 22024
- Les chansons2020
- Complete Songs Volume 12019
- Masses 22019
- Masses2017
- Missa Mi-mi2013
- Missæ Cuiusvis toni & Prolationum2013
- Ockeghem: Requiem / De la Rue: Requiem2012
- Johannes Ockeghem 22012
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