Josquin des Prez
Composer of the Renaissance (c. 1450–1521)
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FranceHe died five centuries ago, but his music still gets recorded, studied, and argued over — the Renaissance composer who made voices move like conversation and turned polyphony into an art that lasted.
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Born around 1450 somewhere along the French-Flemish border, Josquin des Prez spent his life moving between the great courts and chapels of Europe: René of Anjou's choir by 1477, Cardinal Ascanio Sforza's retinue through Italy in the 1480s, the papal chapels in Rome under Innocent VIII and Alexander VI, then service to Louis XII and a brief stint with Ercole I d'Este in Ferrara. He wrote masses, motets, and chansons — works like Ave Maria ... Virgo serena and the Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae — building on Ockeghem's foundation to create a complex, expressive polyphony where independent voices i…
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- Maria – Josquin in Leipzig2025
- Malheur me bat2023
- Josquin: Missa Ad fugam2021
- Josquin’s Legacy2021
- The Josquin Songbook: Music for Two Voices and Vihuela2021
- Josquin, the Undead: Laments, Deplorations and Dances of Death2021
- Motets & Mass Movements2021
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