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56 Testantur hoe tot Virginis matris M.D. XXXVI. IV. Lond. init.: LB. i. init. Schlettstadt. I June 1540. to undertake an of his complete works. Numbers of The When life (iii).] BEATVS Nouembres Roterodami in bellico robore praestantium. Proximam sibi 9. cantorculum] Erasmus master in music was the famous Jacob Obrecht or Hobrecht (1505), organist of Utrecht Cathedral, whose career has been the subject of much research. He afterwards held musical posts in Cambray Cathedral, 1483-5, in St. Donatian’s at Bruges, 1489-90, in Antwerp Cathedral, 1491-1504. Be theless his position at Antwerp. In 1504 he went to Italy for his health and entered the court of Hercules of Ferrara, but died in the following year of the plague. See Glareanus, Dodecachordon, Basle, 1547, pp. 256, 296, 456; Fétis, Biogr. Univ. des Musiciens, vol. vi; E. Vander Straeten, La Musique aux Pays-Bas, vol. iii, pp. 182-90; and ADB., where on the ground of certain difficulties it is suggested that two
