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Josquin Desprez

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Jos·quin Des·prez  (zhzk d-pr) 1440?-1521.
Flemish composer considered the greatest of the Renaissance. He is noted for both his liturgical and secular compositions.


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The Los Angeles Master Chorale performs the world premiere of ``You Are (Variations)'' by Steven Reich in a program that includes works by Igor Stravinsky, Josquin DesPrez and Johannes Brahms.
1450-1521) has never been the subject of a monograph in English; Helmuth Osthoff's two-volume Josquin Desprez (Tutzing, 1962-65), the only scholarly study published thus far, is out of date and was never translated into English.
As a result of the Merkleys' research, Josquin Desprez is now known to have been in Milanese service only from 1484 on, as a ducal singer and familiar of Cardinal Ascanio (207-08, 377, 427-28, 430-32, 439, 444, 449); he is to be distinguished from another Josquin, a Iudochus de Picardia (or Kessellia), a member of the Milanese cathedral and ducal chapels in the 1450s, '60s, '70s, and later (87, 94, 197, 207, 209, 214,15), who previously had been confused with Josquin Desprez.
 
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