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(c.1425 - 1497)

Franco-Flemish composer.

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Ockeghem was born in the village of St. Ghislain (near Mons, Belgium) in the diocese of Cambrai, but his date of birth is unknown. Long ago Fétis thought he was born around 1430, assuming that he was a choirboy in Antwerp in 1443; Plamenac suggested 1425, then later agreed with Riemann and Van den Borren, who picked 1420; Leeman Perkins wrote in 1980 that he must have been born closer to 1410, since he was thought to have lived about 90 or 100 years.

It is unknown where got his training as a musician. Lack of any documentary evidence is only compensated for by two compositions in which Ockeghem refers to the composer Gilles de Binche (Binchois), for more than 30 years a distinguished member of the Burgundian court chapel of Duke Philip the Good.

Shortly after Binchois' death in 1460, Ockeghem composed Mort tu as navré de ton dart, a lament whose text suggests personal acquaintance with Binchois