JOSQUIN, or more strictly JOSSE, DESPRÉS,—latinised into Jodocus a Pratis, and italianised into Giusquino—one of the greatest masters of the Netherland school, the successor of Ockenheim as its representative, and the immediate predecessor in musical history of Lassus and Palestrina, was born about the middle of the 15th century, probably at or near St. Quentin in Hainault. In the collegiate church of that town, according to Claude Hémeré, the ‘arte canendi clarissimus infantulus
’ began his promising...
