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Obrecht, Jacob [ Obertus, Jacob] (b Bergen-op-Zoom, c.1451; d Ferrara, 1505). Flemish composer. Kapellmeister, Utrecht, c.1476–8; worked in Cambrai 1484–5. Was in Ferrara 1487–8. Choirmaster, Bruges 1490–1. Wrote much church mus., incl. masses, motets, etc., and secular songs. Forerunner of Josquin Desprès. Used secular cantus firmus in his masses, e.g. Missa super Maria Zart. Used number symbolism in his works, cabalistic significance having been discovered in many of his structures, e.g. the number of tactus in his Missa ‘Sub tuum praesidium’ is 888, the symbol of Christ. Some of his works are deliberately imitative of other composers. The ‘boundless exuberance’, as one scholar has put it, of his music ranks it with the greatest of its time.

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Jacob Obrecht , c.1450-1505, Flemish composer. Obrecht was ordained as a priest in 1480. He wrote an early four-part setting of the St. Matthew Passion. His sacred music combined the polyphony of Johannes Ockeghem with folk elements. An edition of Obrecht's works, ed. by Johannes Wolf (7 vol., 1908-21), contains 24 masses, 22 motets, chansons, and his famous Passion According to St. Matthew. Obrecht was a victim of the plague.

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	Obrecht. Magazine article from: Music Week; 11/8/2003; 290 words ; Moving deep into virgin early music territory, Edward Wickham and his Gramophone Award-winning Clerks' Group present premiere recordings of music by the remarkably individual 15th-Century Flemish composer Jacob Obrecht.
	Missa Sub tuum praesidium/Carmina: No 1; No. 2; in F. Gaudeamus omnes. Alleluia Anna mater exima. Luce lucens in aaeterna. Difussa est gratia in labiis tuis. Lucis huius festa. Salve regina "Annaberg ms." Alleluia Sancta Dei genetrix Magazine article from: Fanfare; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...singers to render the seven-voice Obrecht Mass, apparently performing the...remarkable composition, the last one Obrecht composed except for the Missa Maria...the Muses: the Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht, Oxford, 1994) is helpful. The...
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