Franco Flemish School

The most notable composers of this style include Ockeghem and Josquin, whose De profundis clamavi ad te, composed between 1500 and 1521, provides a good example.

Led by Josquin des Prez, the succeeding generation was extraordinarily rich in its number of fine composers, including Jakob Obrecht, Heinrich Isaac, Pierre de la Rue, and Loyset Compère, among others.

The Flemish School, which has also been called the Northern Renaissance, the Flemish Primitive School, and Early Netherlandish, refers to artists who were active in Flanders during the 15th and 16th centuries, especially in the cities of Bruges and Ghent.

Josquin Desprez. French/Franco-Flemish composer. Generally acknowledged as the greatest composer of the High Renaissance.

The designation Franco-Flemish School, also called Netherlandish School, Burgundian School, Low Countries School, Flemish School, Dutch School, or Northern School, refers to the style of polyphonic vocal music composition originating from France and from the Burgundian Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries as well ...

Of or relating to historical Flanders, Brabant, and Hainaut, and especially to the style of polyphonic musical composition that flourished there in the 1400s and 1500s.

Active in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the composers of the Franco-Flemish School included such brilliant and diverse figures as Binchois, Dufay, des Prez, Obrecht, de La Rue, Isaac, Roland de Lassus, Willaert and de Wert.

Born in the 14th century (or earlier)

• Asselt, Jan van der (Ghent, ca.
• Beauneveu, André (Valenciennes, ca. –
• Broederlam, Melchior (1381–1409)
• Campin, Robert, aka Master of Flémalle (Valenciennes, 1375 – Tournai, 1444)
• Eyck, Hubert van (1366 – Ghent, 1426)
• Eyck, Jan van (1370 – Bruges, 1441)

Belgium The term Flemish painting refers to works produced from the 15th to the 17th centuries in the region that approximately coincides with modern-day Belgium.

Josquin des Prez, des Prez also spelled Desprez, des Prés, or Després, (born c. 1450, Condé-sur-l'Escaut?, Burgundian Hainaut [France] - died Aug 27, 1521, Condé-sur-l'Escaut), one of the greatest composers of Renaissance Europe.

fixed song cantus firmus, (Latin: “fixed song”, ) plural Cantus Firmi, preexistent melody, such as a plainchant excerpt, underlying a polyphonic musical composition (one consisting of several independent voices or parts).

Flemish, however, had been used since the 14th century to refer to the language and dialects of both the peoples of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant.