Okeghem 1460

Okeghem 1460
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Chaplain to Charles VII, King of France, Okeghem also worked as treasurer of the Collegiate Saint Martin in Tours. In 1460 he composed a mass in honour of his friend and compatriot Gilles Binchois, which also preserves musical traces of the devotion for Saint Martin, the patron saint of the city.

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2016
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Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
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Camilla Cavicchi
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