Touchy, arrogant, but a genius? Meet the West's first great classical composer
His revolutionary sound defined the Renaissance era. So how did we forget this Copernicus of music? 15 April 2021 • 5:00am Every aristocrat and king wanted a piece of Renaissance composer Josquin Desprez Five hundred years ago, the first great composer in classical music died. His name? Josquin, or possibly Gosse, or Gossequin, or Desprez, or de Prato, or a dozen other candidates. Like so many other things about this wonderful composer, even Josquin’s name is uncertain. We don’t even know when he was born – it may have been as early as 1440, somewhere near St Quentin in the Burgundia...
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