Heinrich Isaac

Short Name: Heinrich Isaac
Full Name: Isaac, Heinrich, approximately 1450-1517
Birth Year (est.): 1450
Death Year: 1517

Heinrich Isaac; b. about 1450, Germany; organist in Florence, Italy; supposed to have died there abour 1517

Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

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Heinrich Isaac (ca. 1450 – 26 March 1517) was a Netherlandish Renaissance composer of south Netherlandish origin. He wrote masses, motets, songs (in French, German and Italian), and instrumental music. A significant contemporary of Josquin des Prez, Isaac influenced the development of music in Germany. Several variants exist of his name: Ysaac, Ysaak, Henricus, Arrigo d'Ugo, and Arrigo il Tedesco among them. (Tedesco means "Flemish" or "German" in Italian.)
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