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Jacob Obrecht
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Jacob Obrecht was a leading Flemish composer in the late 15th century who held important church music positions in Cambrai, Bruges and Antwerp. In 1487 he spent a short time in Ferrara, Italy, in the service of the duke Ercole I d’Este. He returned to Ferrara in 1504 and died there a year later from the plague. 
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Obrecht wrote some thirty settings of the ordinary of the Mass, using various contemporary forms. In common with many other composers of the time he wrote a setting using the well known popular song L'homme armé. A similar number of motets include a number of Marian antiphons. Relatively little of Obrecht's secular vocal music has survived.
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