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Flemish composer

Person · Open Library

Died
1505
Works
4

Top works

  • Ave, Regina Caelorum
  • Werken
  • Opera omnia

via Open Library + Wikidata

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
15,491
Total plays
92,893

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renaissanceearly musicClassicalchoralflemish

Jacob Obrecht (1457/1458 – late July, 1505) was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was the most famous composer of masses in Europe in the late 15th century, only being eclipsed by Josquin Desprez after his death, and in addition wrote many motets and songs. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jacob+Obrecht">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A power primer.

    · 1992 · cited 41,580x

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,548x

  3. A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales

    · 1960 · cited 31,966x

  4. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,794x

  5. Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences

    · 2013 · cited 16,990x

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Works in European collections

9 objects attributed to Jacob Obrecht, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Jacob Obrecht. Ascribed to Hans Memling or Quentin Matsys, dated 1496 on the frame. Jacob Obrecht (also Hobrecht; 1457/8 – late July 1505) was a Flemish composer of masses, motets and songs. He was the most famous composer of masses in Europe of the late 15th century and was only eclipsed after his death by Josquin des Prez.

Life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jacob Obrecht” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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