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  1. People In Music History
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  3. Obrecht, Jacob [latinized as Obertus] (approximately 1451-1505)  Netherlandish
  4. composer who worked mainly in Flanders but also visited Italy and died of
  5. plague there. Wrote masses, motets, and secular songs, showing some emotional
  6. characteristics foreshadowing the expressive art of Josquin.
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