Johannes de Stokem (or Johannes Stokem, last name also Prato, Pratis, Stockem, Stokhem, Stoken, Stoccken, Stoecken, Sthoken; 1445 – 1487 or 1501), was a

Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium; ...

composer of the

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. He is considered to be part of the post- Dufay generation in France. He was a friend of

Johannes Tinctoris Jehan le Taintenier or Jean Teinturier (Latinised as Johannes Tinctoris; also Jean de Vaerwere; – 1511) was a Renaissance music theorist and composer from the Low Countries. Up to his time, he is perhaps the most significant European writer ...

, another composer of the period.

Life

Stokem was born in 1445, probably in

Stokkem Dilsen-Stokkem (; li, Dilse-Stokkem; french: Dilsen-Stockem) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities of Belgium, municipality located in the Belgium, Belgian province of Limburg (Belgium), Limburg. On January 1, 2018, Dilsen-Stokkem h ...

near

Liège Liège ( , , ; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is a major city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from b ...

. For parts of his life, he served under

Beatrice of Aragon Beatrice of Naples (16 November 1457 – 23 September 1508), also known as Beatrice of Aragon ( hu, Aragóniai Beatrix; it, Beatrice d'Aragona), was twice Queen of Hungary and of Bohemia by marriage to Matthias Corvinus and Vladislaus II. S ...

, the Queen of Hungary, and as part of the Papal Choir in Rome. He died in either 1487 or 1501.

Music and influence

His piece, ''Brunette'', was published in the ''

Odhecaton The ''Harmonice Musices Odhecaton'' (One Hundred Songs of Harmonic Music, also known simply as the ''Odhecaton'') is an anthology of polyphonic secular songs published by Ottaviano Petrucci in 1501 in Venice. It is the first book of polyphony, po ...

'' and is an early example of a genre of music commonly known as "little brown-eyed girl." It is one of the few five-voice works found in the ''Odhecaton.''

Works

# ''Brunette'', from the ''

'' # ''Harraytre Amours'', recently arraigned into a

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. # ''Le suis d'Alemagne'' (4 voices) # ''Ave Maria Maris Stella'' (2 voices)

References

1440s births Year of death uncertain Belgian classical composers Belgian male classical composers Flemish composers Renaissance composers Musicians from Liège {{Belgium-composer-stub