ABSTRACT
Tinctoris describes him not only as a distinguished composer but as the nest bass singer known to him.
Ockeghem’s personal appearance and manner, as well as his musicianship, were often praised by his contemporaries. Guillaume Crétin wrote a Déploration surle trespas de feu Okergan, praising his “subtlety” and calling on his mourning colleagues, led by Dufay and Busnoys, to sing his music, including his “exquisite and most perfect Requiem Mass.” The poet Jean Molinet also wrote a déploration on his death, which was set to music by Josquin des Prez, the great master of the next generation of French composers. An epitaphium for Ockeghem by Erasmus of Rotterdam was set by Johannes Lupi in the 16th century.
