Audiences were enchanted and adopted Dvořák as one of the 19th century’s most beloved composers. In an era overloaded with brooding and overwrought, Romantic sensibilities, Antonín Dvořák’s music shone with grace and joy and humanity.

Missa Hercules Dux Ferriae (Sanctus Benedictus)įor full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Josquin and Art Īnd you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: ĭonald Macleod explores the life and work of Antonín Dvořák. Missa L’homme arme super voces musicales (Sanctus) Vultum tuum deprecabuntur (Intermerata virgo Ora pro nobis virgo) Ariel Abramovich, Anna Maria Friman, John Potter, Lee Santana In between times, Josquin may have had an association with the royal courts of King René in Aix-en Provence and Louis XI of France, before working for the influential Sforza family in Milan and becoming the first maestro di cappella for Ercole d’Este in Ferrara. He spent his last years as provost of the Collegiate church of Notre Dame in Condé sur l’Escaut, a town near Saint Quentin, right on the border with what’s now Belgium. Documents show he died in 1521, by which time he was probably in his seventies. His birthdate was possibly 1450 or perhaps 1455 and it’s thought he was a choirboy at the collegiate church of St. To accompany the series the paintings they discuss can be viewed on the Radio 3 website.Ĭonsidering his standing, it’s surprisingly difficult to map Josquin’s life. This week, to mark the 500th anniversary of Josquin’s death, Donald Macleod visits the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square with art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon, to build a picture of Josquin’s music and the places he lived and worked, which also stimulated painters to produce equally outstanding Art. While Josquin was a dominant force in music, the Franco-Flemish area with which he’s associated, also produced some remarkable painters, who, like Josquin and his fellow composers, exported their style, technical accomplishments and influence across Europe. A master of polyphonic choral writing, Josquin was as widely admired in his own lifetime as posthumously. The humanist Cosimo Bartoli described Josquin as the Michelangelo of Music. Donald Macleod and Andrew Graham-Dixon build a picture of music and art in Josquin's time

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