Johannes Ockeghem

Aliases: Jean de Ockegham; Ockenheim; Okeghem; Okchem; Ogkegum; Hocquegam

Life

Born: c. 1410-1425

Died: 6 February 1497

Biography

Johannes Ockeghem was the most famous composer of the Franco-Flemish School in the last half of the 15th century, and is often considered the most influential composer between Dufay and Josquin des Prez. In addition to being a renowned composer, he was also an honored singer, choirmaster, and teacher.

Around 39 spellings of his last name are recorded, Ockeghem as well as Okeghem being used in the Chigi codex, the most important source of his works. E. Giraudet (1885) proposed Jean de Ockeghem as a standard spelling based on a purported signature, since lost. Glareanus (1547) germanizes it to Johannes Ockenheim; other versions fall somewhere between Jan Hocquegam and Obghuen.

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List of choral works

• For works at CPDL sorted alphabetically by title, see Johannes Ockeghem compositions

Op.a	Genre	Title	Voices	Comments
1.1	Mass	Missa Quinti toni	3
1.2	Mass	Missa sine nomine	3
1.3	Mass	Missa au travail suis	4	Parody of chanson by Ockeghem or Barbinguant
1.4	Mass	Missa cuiusvis toni	4
1.5	Mass	Missa De plus en plus	4
1.6	Mass	Missa Ecce ancilla Domini	4
1.7	Mass	Missa L'homme armé	4
2.9	Mass	Missa Mi-Mi	4
2.10	Mass	Missa prolationum	4
2.11	Mass	Missa Caput	4	Tenor from antiphon Venit ad Patrem
2.12	Mass Movement	Credo sine nomine	4	Paraphrase of Credo I
2.13	Mass	Missa Fors seulement	5	Parody of own chanson
2.14	Mass	Missa sine nomine	5	Kyrie, gloria & credo
2.15	Requiem	Missa pro defunctis	4	Chigi codex, no. 15 (Introitus, Kyrie, Tractus & Communio)
2.16	Mass	Missa "Pour quelque paine"	4	Dubious, attrib. Cornelius Heyns in one source
3.1	Motet	Alma Redemptoris Mater	4
3.2	Motet	Ave Maria	4
3.3	Motet	Intemerata Dei mater	5
3.4?	Motet	Salve ReginaI?	4
3.5	Motet	Ut heremita solus	4	Textless
3.6		Vivit Dominus
3.7		Celeste beneficium		doubtful
3.8	Canon	Deo gratias (36 part canon)	36	Of dubious attribution
	Canon	Sanctus	4	canon 4 in 2
3.102	Chanson	Au traveil suis	3	Possibly by Barbingant (fl.c.1470)
1	Chanson	Aultre Venus estés	3
2	Chanson	Baisiés moy dont fort	3
3	Chanson	D'un autre amer	3
4	Chanson	Fors seulement l'actente	3
5	Chanson	Fors seullement contre	3
6	Chanson	Il ne m'en chault	3
7, 7a	Chanson	J'en ay dueil	4
9	Chanson	L'autre d'antan
8	Chanson	La despourveue
10	Chanson	Les desléaulx ont la saison
3.78	Chanson	Ma bouche rit	3
12	Chanson	Ma maistresse
3.86	Lament	Mort tu as navrè de ton dart	4	Lament on the death of Binchois
14	Chanson	O rosa bella
15	Chanson	Prenez sur moi	3	fuga trium vocum
16	Chanson	Presque transi
18, 18a	Chanson	Qu'es mi vida preguntays	4	Johannes Cornago
17	Chanson	Quant de vous seul
19	Chanson	S'elle m'amera/Petite camusette
20	Chanson	Se vostre cuer eslongne
21	Chanson	Tant fuz gentement resjouy
22	Chanson	Ung aultre l'a
23		Au travail suis		doubtful
24		Departs vous		doubtful
25		Malheur me bat		doubtful
26		Permanente vierge		doubtful
	Mass	Missa Ma maitresse	4	Chigi codex, no. 7 (incomplete)

a. Opere, ed. Plamenac

 
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Publications

• Chigi codex
• Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (Ottaviano Petrucci)

Modern editions are the Collected Works edited by Dragan Plamenac (1927-1959) and the Masses and Mass Sections edited by Jap van Benthem

External links

• Works by Johannes Ockeghem in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
• Ockeghem homepage (internal links broken, but much material available by scrolling)
• Krenek's 1953 monograph, fallen into public domain