Countertenor Dominique Visse, founder of the Ensemble Clément-Janequin, has long-standing admiration for his predecessor Josquin des Prés.
He proves it in this anniversary year which sees the 500th anniversary of the death of the composer from Condé-sur-l'Escaut with a sumptuous album dedicated to his
Septiesme Livre
(at Ricercar): a delightfully contrasting bouquet of twenty-four songs, published more ten years after his death but which are so many polyphonic splendours, testifying to the duplicity of his genius.
Songs taken up this evening at the Festival of La Chaise-Dieu (Haute-Loire) by Dominique Visse.
LE FIGARO.
- What does the figure of Josquin des Prés represent?
Dominique VISSE.
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He is a very important composer for his time, but also for the music that will follow.
He comes from a Flemish musical culture but left for Italy very early on, making him one of the first great European composers.
He was one of the first musicians of the French Renaissance to seize the
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