composer

Desprez, Josquin

Josquin Desprez (c. 1450-1521) is often called the most important composer of the Renaissance period. His name is derived from the Flemish ‘Josken’ (Little Joseph). Very little is known about ...

related works

Liber I Selectorum Psalmorum : for 4-6 voices (Volume 2) / Various composers, assembled by Johann vom Berg; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK

Motetus : (quasi in modo antico), for six-part a cappella choir, 1987 / Joep Straesser

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK6

O Crux Gloriosa: Four Motets and One Mass on the Holy Cross : for 4 and 5 voices / Various authors; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK

Missa Brevis : for mixed choir / Geert Schoonbeek de Vlaming

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK4

composition

Missa Faisant Regretz : for 4 voices / Josquin Desprez; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers

Other authors:
Wagemakers, Cees (editor)
Description:
Josquin was prolific not only in sacred music (nearly 20 masses and 60 motets) but also in chansons (more than 60). Of the chansons there are two very important ones: Mille regretz, which was the basis for the Missa Mille Regretz, a parody mass by Cristóbal de Morales, and Faulte d’argent which provided the cantus firmus in the Requiem by Jean Richafort. In the the Kyrie of the underlying Missa Faisant Regretz one can hear a reference to the Gregorian eleventh mass (Orbis factor).
Cees Wagemakers