Jacob Obrecht

1496 portrait from the studio of Hans Memling, givening Obrecht's age as 38

Aliases: Hobrecht

Life

Born: 1457 or 1458

Died: before 1 August 1505

The son of a town trumpeter of Ghent, Obrecht might have studied with Antoine Busnoys; he was employed at Bergen-op-Zoon (1480-84), Cambrai (1484), Bruges (1485), Antwerp (1492, Bruges again (1498), and Ferrara (1504), where he died of plague.

View the Wikipedia article on Jacob Obrecht.

List of choral works

Masses

Missa Adieu mes amours Missa Ave regina celorum Missa Beata viscera Missa Caput a 4 Missa de Sancto Donatiano a 4 a/k/a Saint Donatian Mass (polytextual--cantus is O Beate Pater). See link below. Missa de Sancto Martino Missa De tous biens playne Missa Fors seulement Missa Fortuna desperata a 4 Missa Grecorum Missa Je ne demande Missa L'homme armé Missa Libenter gloriabor Missa Malheur me bat a 4 Missa Maria zart a 4 Missa Mi-mi (quarti toni) a 4

Missa O lumen ecclesie Missa Petrus apostolus Missa Pfauenschwanz Missa Rose playsante Missa Plurimorum carminum I Missa Plurimorum carminum II Missa Salve diva parens Missa Scaramella Missa Sicut spina rosam Missa Si dedero Missa Sub tuum praesidium Missa Veci la danse Barbari Missa Cela sans plus Missa Gracuuly et biaulx Missa Je ne seray plus Missa N'aray-je jamais

Motets

Alma redemptoris Mater a 4 Angeli Archangeli/Comme femme a 6 Assunt festa jubilea Beata es Maria Factor orbis Haec Deum caeli Haec dies a 5 Laudemus nunc Dominum Laudes Christo Redemptori Magnificat

Mille quingentis/Requiem aeternam O beate Basili / O beate pater Parce Domine Passio secundum Matthaeum a 4 Quis numerare queat Salve Crux arbor vitae a 5 Salve Regina a 3 Salve Regina à 4 Salve Regina à 6 Victimae Paschali a 4

Secular works

• La tortorella è semplice uccelletto

 
Click here to search for this composer on CPDL

External links

• Works by Jacob Obrecht in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
• Info and viewable score of Saint Donatian Mass can be found here