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Dutch music seems to be rather unknown outside the low countries. Therefore, an attempt has been made in this article to make that music accessible. On the basis of a choice of composers, a chronological overview (of a thousand years) is writen about the music from the Low Countries, to make its development a bit audible.
The information comes largely from Wikipedia, the (short) pieces of music from YouTube. So it is possible, by the names and links used in the story, to find further information and to listen to many other examples of Dutch music. So no one is bound to the choices made here! We wish everyone a great pleasure in independently roaming though the music of the Low Countries. A more complete list ofcomposersof the dutch culture is also linked.
Music from the early middle ages.
In ancient times borders were a rather vague concept. In addition, the composers in those times were anonymous. It was decided to include only music of famous composers and not to take the borders too tight. In the later time Mozart is included because there is pretty much documented of his time and his composing in The Hague. He is a reason to make a bit wider “view” not pretending he was Dutch! Here they are: some Dutch composers and a few ex
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Johannes Ockeghem
Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer (c. 1410–1497)
Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410 – 6 February 1497) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of early Renaissance music. Ockeghem was a significant European composer in the period between Guillaume Du Fay and Josquin des Prez, and he was—with his colleague Antoine Busnois—a prominent European composer in the second half of the 15th century. He was an important proponent of the early Franco-Flemish School.
Ockeghem was well associated with other prominent composers of the time, and spent most of his career serving the French royal court under Charles VII, Louis XI and Charles VIII. Numerous poets and musicians lamented his death, including Erasmus, Guillaume Crétin, Jean Molinet and Josquin, who composed the well-known Nymphes des bois for him.
It is thought that Ockeghem's extant works represent only a small part of his entire oeuvre, including around 14 masses, 20 chansons and fewer than 10 motets—though the exact numbers vary due to attribution uncertainties. His better-known works include the canon-based Missa prolationum; the Missa cuiusvis toni, which can be sung in any mode; the chanson Fors seulement; and the earliest surviving polyphonic Requiem.
Life
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