Jacob Obrecht (1457-1505) - Missa 'Sub tuum praesidium'
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Composer: Jacob Obrecht (1457-1505)
Work: Missa 'Sub tuum praesidium'
Performers: Capella de la Tοrre; Kаthаrinа Bаuml (direction)
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Jacob Obrecht [Hobrecht]
(Ghent, 1457 - Ferrara, before 1 August 1505)
South Netherlandish composer. The text of Obrecht’s motet Mille quingentis reveals that he was the son of a Guillermus Hobrecht who died on 1488. The father has been identified as the trumpeter Willem Obrecht who was permanently employed by the city of Ghent from 1452 until his death in 1488, and whose intermittent service in Burgundian court circles can be documented from 1454 to 1470. The composer appears to have been the only child of Willem’s first marriage. His mother Lijsbette Gheeraerts died around the age of 20 in 1460. Obrecht’s portrait gives his age as 38 in 1496. Nothing is known about the composer’s education, although it must have been suitable to prepare him for the priesthood. He is mentioned with the academic title of master by 1480. There is no documentary support for the assumption that Obrecht worked at Utrecht in the late 1470s. However, the composer was active as choirmaster at the St Gertrudiskerk in Bergen op Zoom in 1480-84, as documented by the annual accounts of the Guild of Our Lady based in that church. An unnamed mass by Obrecht, composed probably during these years, is known to have reached the court of Duke Ercole d’Este of Ferrara by 1484. In September 1484 Obrecht accepted a position as master of the choirboys at Cambrai Cathedral. Within several months after his arrival there, however, he sought to obtain the succentorship at the collegiate church of St Donatian in Bruges. Once the latter position had been secured, he postponed his departure for several months, meanwhile discharging his responsibilities at Cambrai to the evident dissatisfaction of the cathedral chapter (in July 1485 he was formally reprimanded by the canons for an outbreak of scabies amongst the choirboys). Obrecht was finally installed at Bruges on 13 October 1485, and summarily dismissed at Cambrai upon his return there. An audit of his account books revealed a deficit that could not be accounted for. The chapter agreed to settle by purchasing music manuscripts copied by the composer, at a price reduced by the sum he owed the cathedral.
During his early years in Bruges, Obrecht is known to have composed the masses De Sancto Martino and De Sancto Donatiano and very probably the Missa ‘Salve diva parens’, whose earliest surviving source has been dated 1487. In August 1487, the chapter of St Donatian granted the composer six months’ leave of absence to travel to Ferrara at the invitation of Duke Ercole d’Este. He must have overstayed his leave considerably, for ten months later, in June 1488, we find him passing through Bergen op Zoom on his return from Italy. Obrecht did not come back to Bruges until 15 August of the same year. This was approximately three months before the death of his father. After a summary decision to dismiss him in May 1490, Obrecht was finally granted remission from his post in January 1491. By June 1492 he was active as choirmaster at the church of Our Lady at Antwerp, filling the vacancy left after Jacobus Barbireau’s death in the previous year. Obrecht returned to Bergen op Zoom in June or July 1497, possibly attracted by the increasingly generous musical patronage in that city. However, 18 months later, in December 1498, he took up his old post of succentor at St Donatian, Bruges. He continued to occupy this position until serious illness forced him to submit his resignation in September 1500. The chapter granted his request, but shortly afterwards rewarded him with three benefices in acknowledgement not only of his valuable services to the church but also of his fame as a composer. By June 1501 Obrecht was back again at Antwerp, where he served as a choirmaster at the church of Our Lady until June 1503. A payment recorded by the treasury of the Emperor Maximilian I reveals that he was in Innsbruck in October 1503. Apart from this isolated record, however, nothing is known of the composer’s whereabouts between his departure from Antwerp in June 1503 and his final appointment as maestro di cappella at Ferrara in September 1504. At Ferrara he served Duke Ercole d’Este, one of his most enthusiastic admirers, until the latter’s death in January 1505 left him once again without a position. After an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a post at Mantua, Obrecht died of the plague at Ferrara in late June or July 1505.
Un superbe primitif flamand pour cette très belle messe, merci.
Bellísima misa! Gracias.
linda missa!
Perfection ♥ ️
En la vena del gusto.
Спасибо. Обожаю Обрехта. Благодарен Вам.
Еще очень хорошие произведения есть у Жоскена Де Пре (en.-Josquin Des Prez).
Sunday, 8 Oct. '23
Is it sacrilegious to call this performance (and recording) the work of angels?
If so, forgive me, Signore.
Merci, PNG.
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