How Did Josquin Contribute To Music

Josquin des Drez(ca.1440-1521), a legendary fame, remains a historical figure for his unusual musical talent. The administrative records that depicts him as a legend of music are few or let’s say rare to found with certainty. But, some of the remains gives us the outline of his contributions in the field of music during renaissance. During his period, the quality of his music was hardly appreciated than the music of his contemporaries as a result of which we can now only find the works of Josquin through the admiration by his later contemporaries.
It is believed that Josquin could have a possible connection with the French royal court.
Around 1475-c, he became the member of the chapel of King Rene of Anjou. He sang in the chapel choir of the Dukes of Milan. He stayed in Rome singing in the papal choir but it seems he …show more content…
Josquin worked for
Ascanio in between 1490-1493 where he wrote El grillo and In te, Domine both in chordial style that he had learnt in Italy. From 1501-1503, Josquin was with King Louis XII of France. It is believed that Josquin was on loan to The King of France by his Italian employer. “In 1515 he wrote a beautiful five-voice De profundis for the funeral of his former patron Louis XII. As late as 1520 Josquin composed "aucunes chanssons nouvelles" for the young monarch Charles V, nephew of his last patron, Marguerite of Austria, regent of the Netherlands. This intelligent and talented woman especially admired the composer and appointed him provost of the collegiate

Timalsina2 church of Notre Dame at Condé-sur- l'Escaut.” It seems that Josquin mostly contributed the
Royal family. And, after 1507, he remained in his native land for rest of his