Pierre de La Rue

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Mijn Hert Altijt Heeft Verlanghen 00:00 Tools
Lamentatione Jeremiae - Lectio III - Daleth 00:00 Tools
Soubz ce tumbel 00:00 Tools
Jam sauche 00:00 Tools
Lamentatione Jeremiae - Lectio III - Ghimel 00:00 Tools
Autant en emporte 01:17 Tools
Lamentatione Jeremiae - Responsorium II 00:00 Tools
Lamentatione Jeremiae - Responsorium III 00:00 Tools
Myn hert altyt heeft verlanghen I 00:00 Tools
Vexilla Regis - Passio Domini a 4 00:00 Tools
Lamentatione Jeremiae - Lectio II - Beth 00:00 Tools
Lamentatione Jeremiae - Lectio II - Thau 00:00 Tools
Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Lamentatione Jeremiae - Lectio II - Aleph 00:00 Tools
Gloria 00:00 Tools
Lamentatione Jeremiae - Jerusalem, Jerusalem 00:00 Tools
Credo 00:00 Tools
Lamentatione Jeremiae - Lectio III - He 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Lamentatione Jeremiae - Responsorium I 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Requiem: Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Peter de caelis, Deus a 6 00:00 Tools
O salutaris hostia 00:00 Tools
Absalon Fili Mi 00:00 Tools
Missa De Septem Doloribus: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Ave regina caelorum 00:00 Tools
Autant En Emporte Le Vent 00:00 Tools
Fors Seulement 00:00 Tools
Quis dabit pacem: Doleo super te 00:00 Tools
Delicta juventutis 00:00 Tools
Gaude virgo 00:00 Tools
Missa De Septem Doloribus: Credo 00:00 Tools
Missa De Septem Doloribus: Gloria 00:00 Tools
Requiem 00:00 Tools
Missa De Septem Doloribus: Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Vexilla Regis - Passio Domini nostri 00:00 Tools
Considera Israel 00:00 Tools
Il viendra le jour desire 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Missa "L'Homme armé": Missa "L'Homme armé": Kyrie 00:00 Tools
De la Rue: O salutaris hostia 00:00 Tools
Missa De Septem Doloribus: Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Missa "L'Homme armé": Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Salve regina, mater misericordiae 00:00 Tools
Messe de l' Homme Arme: Gloria 00:00 Tools
Missa Pascale: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Mijn hert altijt heerft verlanghen: Mijn hert altijt heerft verlanghen 00:00 Tools
Pourquoy non 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Introitus Requiem: aeternam 00:00 Tools
Missa Pascale: Credo 00:00 Tools
Messe de l' Homme Arme: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Stabat Mater (Josquin Desprez) 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Communio: Lux aeterna 00:00 Tools
Missa "L'Homme armé": Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Missa "L'Homme armé": Gloria 00:00 Tools
Da pacem Domine 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Psalmus 00:00 Tools
Ave Regina celorum 00:00 Tools
Missa "L'Homme armé": Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Missa "L'Homme armé": Missa "L'Homme armé": Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Missa Pascale: Gloria 00:00 Tools
Trop plus secret 00:00 Tools
Missa "L'Homme armé": Credo 00:00 Tools
Vexilla Regis/Passio Domini 00:00 Tools
Rue: Ave sanctissima Maria 00:00 Tools
Missa Pascale: Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Alleluia, Vox turturis (Chant Grégorien) 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Tractus: Sicut cervus 00:00 Tools
Missa Pascale: Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Introïtus 00:00 Tools
Salve regina IV: Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Hevae 00:00 Tools
Tous les regretz 00:00 Tools
Vexilla Regis / Passio Domini 00:00 Tools
Graduale, Plorans ploravit (Chant Grégorien) 00:00 Tools
Offertorium, Doleo super te (Chant Grégorien) 00:00 Tools
Missa cum iocunditate: Gloria 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Offertorium 00:00 Tools
Prosa, Astat Virgo (Chant Grégorien) 00:00 Tools
Magnificat anima mea Dominum - Et exultavit spiritus meus 00:00 Tools
Missa cum iocunditate: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Missa cum iocunditate: Credo 00:00 Tools
Salve regina IV: Eia, ergo, advocata nostra 00:00 Tools
Agnus 00:00 Tools
Plorer, gemier / Requiem 00:00 Tools
Secretz regretz 00:00 Tools
Psalmus 00:00 Tools
Offertorium 00:00 Tools
Salve regina IV: O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Communio 00:00 Tools
Absalom, fili mi 00:00 Tools
Messe de l' Homme Armé: Gloria 00:00 Tools
Communio, Eplurare et gaudere (Chant Grégorien) 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Requiem: Introïtus 00:00 Tools
Missa cum iocunditate: Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Mijn hert altijt heeft verlangehn 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone I: Suscepit Israel puerum suum - Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros 00:00 Tools
Il viendra le jour désiré 00:00 Tools
Pourquoy tant 00:00 Tools
Missa cum iucunditate : Agnus Dei II 00:00 Tools
Introïtus, Veni in altitudinem (Chant Grégorien) 00:00 Tools
Messe de l' Homme Armé: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Offertorium: Domine Jesu Christe 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Requiem: Psalmus 00:00 Tools
Pour ung jamais 00:00 Tools
Pater de caelis, Deus a 6: Peter de caelis, Deus a 6 00:00 Tools
Plores, genices, cries: Requiem 00:00 Tools
Missa Pro Defunctis 00:00 Tools
Missa "L'Homme armé": Missa "L'Homme armé": Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Pour Ce Que Je Suis 00:00 Tools
Lux aeterna 00:00 Tools
Myn hert altyt heeft verlanghen 00:00 Tools
Pierre de la Rue: Il viendra le jour desiré 00:00 Tools
Missa "L'Homme armé": Missa "L'Homme armé": Credo 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone IV: Quia Respexit Humilitatem Ancillae Suae - Quia Fecit Mihi Magna Qui Potens Est 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Requiem: Communio 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Requiem: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Plorer, gemir, crier - Requiem 00:00 Tools
Rue: Missa 'Ave sanctissima Maria': Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Introitus: Requiem aeternam 00:00 Tools
Ave Regina coelorum 00:00 Tools
Il Est Bien Heureux 00:00 Tools
Alleluia: Vox turturis (Psallentes) 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Requiem: Sanctus 00:00 Tools
A Vous Non Autre 00:00 Tools
Missa cum iucunditate ; sanctus benedictus 00:00 Tools
Resp.: Sicut ovis 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone IV: Deposuit Potentes - Esurientes Implevit Bonis 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone IV: Suscepit Israel Puerum Suum - Sicut Locutus Est Ad Patres Nostros 00:00 Tools
Plorer, gemer/Requiem 00:00 Tools
Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes 00:00 Tools
De l'oeil de la fille du roy: De l’oeil de la fille du roy 00:00 Tools
Missa 'Cum iocunditate': Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone IV: Et Misericordia Eius a Progenie - Fecit Potentiam In Brachio Suo 00:00 Tools
Requiem / Introitus 00:00 Tools
Media Vita (chant grégorien) 00:00 Tools
Requiem: Requiem: Offertorium 00:00 Tools
Missa 'Cum iocunditate': Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Laude anima (instrumentaliter) 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis (Requiem): Psalmus 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis: II. Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Mijn, hert altijt heeft verlanghen 00:00 Tools
Missa 'Cum iocunditate': Gloria 00:00 Tools
Pater De Celis Deus 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis (Requiem): Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Ave regina (instrumentaliter) 00:00 Tools
Tous nobles cueurs 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis: V. Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis: I. Introit 00:00 Tools
Salve Regina 00:00 Tools
Missa cum iucunditate ; kyrie 00:00 Tools
Cueurs desolez / Dies illa 00:00 Tools
Salve Regina II: Et Jesum, Benedictum Fructum Ventris Tui 00:00 Tools
Fraw Margetsen Leid - Pour ung jamais 00:00 Tools
Requiem / Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Ce n'est pas jeu: Ce n’est pas jeu 00:00 Tools
Requiem / Psalmus 00:00 Tools
O Domine, Jesu Christe 00:00 Tools
Preambulum (tablature d'orgue) 00:00 Tools
Regina Celi 00:00 Tools
Missa 'Cum iocunditate': Credo 00:00 Tools
Preambulum (reprise) 00:00 Tools
O salutaris hostia (motet) 00:00 Tools
Missa Pro Defunctis (Requiem): Introitus 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis (Requiem): Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis (Requiem): Communio 00:00 Tools
Absolve Domine (chant grégorien) 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis (Requiem): Offertorium 00:00 Tools
Missa L'homme armé / Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VI: Deposuit Potentes - Esurientes Implevit Bonis 00:00 Tools
Salve regina V: O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria 00:00 Tools
Plorer, gemier/Requiem 00:00 Tools
Introitus 00:00 Tools
A vous non autre servir, habandoné 00:00 Tools
Missa Cum jocunditate: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Sic Deus dilexit 00:00 Tools
Missa L'homme armé: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Pour Ung Jamais Ung Regret Me Demeure 00:00 Tools
Credo (tablature d'orgue) 00:00 Tools
Requiem / Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Libera me (chant grégorien) 00:00 Tools
Missa 'Cum iocunditate': Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis (Requiem): Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis: III. Sicut cervus: Tract 00:00 Tools
Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui 00:00 Tools
Sancta Maria Succurre Miseris, Antiphon 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone II: Deposuit potentes - Esurientes implevit bonis 00:00 Tools
Missa L'homme armé / Gloria 00:00 Tools
Missa L'homme armé / Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Messe de l' Homme Armй: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VI: Quia Respexit Humilitatem Ancillae Suae - Quia Fecit Mihi Magna Qui Potens Est 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VI: Et Misericordia Eius a Progenie - Fecit Potentiam In Brachio Suo 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone II: Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae - Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est 00:00 Tools
Communio 00:00 Tools
Gaude virgo mater 00:00 Tools
Graduale 00:00 Tools
Requiem / Offertorium 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis: VI. Lux aeterna 00:00 Tools
Missa cum incunditate ; gloria 00:00 Tools
Missa cum iucunditate : Agnus Dei I 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone II: Et misericordia eius a progenie - Fecit potentiam in brachio suo 00:00 Tools
Missa Sancto Job (complete) 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone I: Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae - Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone II: Suscepit Israel puerum suum - Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone I: Et misericordia eius a progenie - Fecit potentiam in brachio suo 00:00 Tools
Missa L'homme armé / Credo 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone V: Suscepit Israel puerum suum - Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros 00:00 Tools
Kyrie eleison 00:00 Tools
Salve Regina II: Eia, Ergo, Advocata Nostra 00:00 Tools
Missa L'homme armé / Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VI: Suscepit Israel Puerum Suum - Sicut Locutus Est Ad Patres Nostros 00:00 Tools
Messe de l' Homme Armй: Gloria 00:00 Tools
Missa L'homme armé: Gloria 00:00 Tools
Requiem / Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Antiphon, "Virgo gloriosa" 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis: IV. Offertory 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone I: Deposuit potentes - Esurientes implevit bonis 00:00 Tools
Salve Regina V: Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Hevae 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VII: Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae - Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone IV: Gloria Patri Et Filio Et Spiritui Sancto - Sicut Erat In Principio. Antiphon, "Sancta Maria Succurre Miseris" 00:00 Tools
Salve Regina V: Eia, ergo, advocata nostra 00:00 Tools
Missa "Nunca fué pena mayor": Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VII: Et misericordia eius a progenie - Fecit potentiam in brachio suo 00:00 Tools
Prosa: Astat virgo (Psallentes) 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VII: Suscepit Israel puerum suum - Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros 00:00 Tools
Missa Cum iucunditate: I. Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Missa Cum iucunditate: II. Gloria 00:00 Tools
Incessament mon povre cueur lamente 00:00 Tools
Missa pro Fidelibus Defunctis: III. Sicut Servus 00:00 Tools
Alleluia 00:00 Tools
Salve regina V: Salve regina, mater misericordiae 00:00 Tools
Requiem / Communio 00:00 Tools
Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto - Sicut erat in principio. Antiphon, "Bene omnia fecit" 00:00 Tools
Suscepit Israel puerum suum - Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros 00:00 Tools
Missa L'homme armé: Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto - Sicut erat in principio. Antiphon, "Virgo gloriosa" 00:00 Tools
Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto - Sicut erat in principio. Antiphon, "Tribus miraculis"" 00:00 Tools
Magnificat (Tone 8) 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone II: Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto - Sicut erat in principio. Antiphon, "Virgo gloriosa" 00:00 Tools
Introit: Requiem aeternam 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VII: Deposuit potentes - Esurientes implevit bonis 00:00 Tools
Messe de Requiem: XIII. Coeur Désolez "Dies illa, dies irae" 00:00 Tools
Missa Cum iucunditate: V. Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Missa Cum iucunditate: III. Credo 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VI: Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto - Sicut erat in principio. Antiphon, "O quam gloriosum est regnum" 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VIII: Et misericordia eius a progenie - Fecit potentiam in brachio suo 00:00 Tools
Vexilla Regis - Passio Domini 00:00 Tools
Vexilla Regis Prodeunt (Arr. for Voices & Chamber Ensemble) 00:00 Tools
Ave sanctissima Maria 00:00 Tools
Missa 'Ave sanctissima Maria' (1976 Digital Remaster): Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Regina Coeli 00:00 Tools
Missa cum iucunditate ; credo 00:00 Tools
Missa Conceptio Tua: Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Missa Conceptio Tua: Gloria 00:00 Tools
Missa L'homme armé: Credo 00:00 Tools
Salve Mater Salvatoris 00:00 Tools
Missa Ave Maria Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Missa pro fidelibus defunctis, "Missa pro defunctis": Tractus 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone I: Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto - Sicut erat in principio. Antiphon, "Tribus miraculis"" 00:00 Tools
Autant en emporte le vent for 4 voices 00:00 Tools
Missa Cum iucunditate: IV. Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VIII: Suscepit Israel puerum suum - Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros 00:00 Tools
Psalm: Sicut cervus 00:00 Tools
Messe L'Homme armé: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Missa de Feria: Gloria 00:00 Tools
Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VII: Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto - Sicut erat in principio. Antiphon, "Dedit mihi Dominus pennas" 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone V: Et misericordia eius a progenie - Fecit potentiam in brachio suo 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VIII: Deposuit potentes - Esurientes implevit bonis 00:00 Tools
Introďtus, Veni in altitudinem (Chant Grégorien) 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VIII: Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae - Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est 00:00 Tools
Missa pro Fidelibus Defunctis: V. Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Missa pro Fidelibus Defunctis: II. Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Missa pro Fidelibus Defunctis: I. Requiem 00:00 Tools
Missa Cum jocunditate: Gloria 00:00 Tools
Pourquoi Non 00:00 Tools
Missa Almana: II. Gloria 00:00 Tools
Missa Ave sanctissima Maria - IV. Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Missa Conceptio Tua: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Missa Conceptio Tua: Credo 00:00 Tools
Antiphon: In pace, Psalm 4: Cum invocarem 00:00 Tools
Sanctus Incessament 00:00 Tools
Motets: Pater de caelis 00:00 Tools
Missa L'homme armé: Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Salve Regina II 00:00 Tools
Mijn hert altijt heerft verlanghen 00:00 Tools
Missa Ave Maria: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria 00:00 Tools
Antiphon, "Dum medium silentium" 00:00 Tools
Lectio III: Lamentationis Jeremiae (Bernhard Ycart) 00:00 Tools
Lectio II: Lamentationis Jeremiae (Johannes Gardano) 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis: VII. Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Antiphon, "O quam gloriosum est regnum" 00:00 Tools
Magnificat (Tone 5) 00:00 Tools
Missa pro defunctis: Introitus - Arr. for Guitar 00:00 Tools
Cueurs desolez 00:00 Tools
Considera Israel, motet for 4 voices 00:00 Tools
Missa L'homme armé - Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Sanctus & Benedictus 00:00 Tools
O salutaris hostia (Motette) 00:00 Tools
Missa "Tous les regretz": Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone IV - Deposuit potentes - Esurientes implevit bonis 00:00 Tools
Missa Sancta Dei genitrix: Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Autent en emporte le vent 00:00 Tools
Missa de sancta cruce - I. Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone IV -Magnificat anima mea Dominum - Et exultavit spiritus meus 00:00 Tools
Doleo super te 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone V: Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae - Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Tone VIII: Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto - Sicut erat in principio. Antiphon, "Dum medium silentium" 00:00 Tools
Missa Almana: I. Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Missa De Feria: Credo 00:00 Tools
Missa de Feria: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
kyrie incessament 00:00 Tools
Lectio I: Lamentationis Jeremiae 00:00 Tools
Magnificat (Tone 2) 00:00 Tools
Missa pro Fidelibus Defunctis: IV. Domine Jesu Christe 00:00 Tools
Laudate Dominium, omnes gentes 00:00 Tools
Gloria Incessament 00:00 Tools
Missa de sancta cruce - II. Gloria 00:00 Tools
Salve Regina V - Salve regina, mater misericordiae 00:00 Tools
Salve Regina V - Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Hevae 00:00 Tools
Salve Regina V - Eia, ergo, advocata nostra 00:00 Tools
Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto - Sicut erat in principio. Antiphon, "Dedit mihi Dominus pennas" 00:00 Tools
Doleo super te frater mi Jonatha 00:00 Tools
Missa Ave Maria: Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Credo Incessament 00:00 Tools
Missa Ave Maria: Gloria 00:00 Tools
Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Hevae 00:00 Tools
Missa Ave Maria: Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Missa Ave Maria: Credo 00:00 Tools
Antiphon, "Tribus miraculis" 00:00 Tools
Mijn Hert Altijt Heeft Verlang 00:00 Tools
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Pierre de La Rue (c.1452 – 20 November 1518) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A member of the same generation as Josquin Desprez, he ranks with Alexander Agricola, Antoine Brumel, Loyset Compère, Heinrich Isaac, Jacob Obrecht and Gaspar van Weerbeke as one of the most famous and influential exponents of the Netherlands polyphonic style in the decades around 1500. He was probably born at Tournai, in modern Belgium, and likely educated at the Notre-Dame Cathedral there, which had a substantial musical establishment. While no records remain of his childhood, he was mentioned in the archives of the cathedral of Ste Gudule in Brussels in 1469-1470, as an adult singer. In 1471 he was in Ghent at the Jacobskerk. Subsequently he was employed in Nieuwpoort (from 1472 to around 1477), Cologne (ending in 1489), and Cambrai (date unknown), as well as one location called "St Ode" (date and city not known). Previous biographies of La Rue place him in Siena, Italy between 1483 and 1485; however it has been determined that the La Rue in the records there was a different singer. Pierre de La Rue probably never went to Italy, making him one of the few prominent Franco-Flemish composers of this generation never to travel there. In 1492 he went to 's-Hertogenbosch Cathedral (in present-day Netherlands), but the next year he joined the chapel of Emperor Maxmilian. The remainder of his career was centered on Brussels, though he made at least two trips to Spain. On the second trip to Spain, in 1506, he was shipwrecked in the English Channel, and spent three months at the court of Henry VII of England. After two more years in Spain, in the service of Juana of Castile — Joanna the Mad — he returned to the Netherlands in 1508, probably because Juana had been forced out of power (her husband, Philip the Fair, had died of typhus in 1506). Juana was inconsolable, unable to leave the corpse of her dead husband, and had become quite insane; why La Rue stayed as long as he did is not known, but it is not impossible that his dark, intensely expressive music was one of the few things that brought her solace. After returning north La Rue spent some time in Mechelen and at Kortrijk, where he died. An epitaph from his tomb in Kortrijk implies that he may have worked at the courts in France and Hungary as well, though no other evidence supports this. Then again, the location of "St Ode" has not been determined. On his trips to Spain he met many of the other Franco-Flemish composers who were working at the same time (for instance, Josquin, Isaac and Robert de Févin) and these meetings may have proved decisive on the development of his style. La Rue wrote masses, motets, Magnificats, settings of the Lamentations, and chansons, and overall showed more diversity than almost any of the other composers of his generation, except perhaps for Josquin. Some scholars have suggested that he only composed music for about the last 20 years of his life, mainly when he was in the imperial service; but it has proven difficult to date any of his works precisely, and they mostly conform to the stylistic trends prevalent around 1500. Stylistically, his works are more similar to Josquin than to any other composer working at the same time. In fact, misattribution of doubtful works has gone both ways. Yet there are some unique features to La Rue's style. He had a liking for extreme low voice ranges, descending sometimes to C or even B flat below the bass staff; he employed more chromaticism than most of his contemporaries; and much of his work is rich in dissonance. He also broke up long, dense textures with passages for two voices only, something done also by Johannes Ockeghem and Josquin. In addition, he liked to write canons of considerable complexity. One of his masses for six voices, the Missa Ave sanctissima Maria, is a six-voice canon, a technically difficult feat reminiscent of some of the work of Ockeghem. This is also the earliest six-voice mass known to exist. The second of his two masses based on the L'homme armé tune begins and ends with mensuration canons, yet another feat of contrapuntal virtuosity worth of Josquin or Ockeghem; indeed La Rue sometimes seemed to be in conscious competition with the more renowned Josquin. Most of his masses are of the cantus firmus type, though he occasionally wrote a parody mass. La Rue wrote one of the earliest polyphonic Requiem masses to survive, and it is one of his most famous works. Unlike later Requiems, it includes polyphonic settings only of the Introit, Kyrie, Tract, Offertory, Sanctus, Agnus, and Communion (the Dies Irae, often the center of gravity in more recent Requiems, was a later addition). This mass, more than many others, emphasises the low registers of voices, and even the lowest voices themselves. La Rue's motets are mostly for four voices; they use pervasive imitation, though not usually at the outset (unlike the style of Josquin). His thirty chansons show a diversity of style, some being rather similar to the late Burgundian style (for example, as seen in Hayne van Ghizeghem or Gilles Binchois), and others using the more current imitative polyphonic style. Since he never spent time in Italy, he never picked up the Italian frottola style which featured light, homophonic textures (which Josquin used so effectively in his popular El Grillo and Scaramella), and which so charmed the other members of his generation. Read more on Last.fm. 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