A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Crespel, Guillaume

by James Robert Sterndale-Bennett

CRESPEL, Guillaume, a Belgian musician living in the latter half of the 15th century, and composer of a lament on the death of Ockenheim, which is of historical importance as giving what may be considered an authentic list of the most distinguished pupils of that master:—

'Agricola, Verbonnet, Prioris,
Josquin des Prés, Gaspard, Brumel, Compère,
Ne parlez plus de joyeux chants, ne ris,
Mais composez un ne recorderis
Pour lamenter nostre Maistre et bon père.'

[ J. R. S. B. ]