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Okeghem

American  
[oh-kuh-gem] / ˈoʊ kəˌgɛm /
Also Ockenheim

noun

  1. Jean d' or Jan van c1430–c95, Flemish composer.


Okeghem British  
/ ˈɒkəˌɡɛm, ˈɔkəxəm /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Ockeghem

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One of the most beautiful of his pieces was a dirge written upon the death of Okeghem.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)

Okeghem was a very ingenious and laborious composer, who carried the art of canonic imitation to a much finer point than had been reached before his time.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)

He was a pupil of Okeghem; was chapel master in his native town, and in 1471 was a musician at the papal court of Sixtus IV.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)