Editing Josquin des Prez (section)

====Skepticism and revision====
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Reflecting on the sentiment that Josquin was "the greatest composer of his generation, and the most important, innovative, and influential composer of the late 15th and early 16th centuries", Sherr notes growing dissent from that position in the early 21st century.{{sfn|Sherr|2017|loc=§ "Introduction"}} Josquin's 2001 article in ''[[Grove Music Online]]'' lists fewer than 200 works attributed to him,{{sfn|Macey|Noble|Dean|Reese|2011|loc=§ "Works"}} down from more than 370.{{sfn|Wegman|2000|p=28}} These revisions of Josquin's ''oeuvre'' have compromised some earlier scholarship which analyzed Josquin's style with works now not considered his.{{sfn|Macey|Noble|Dean|Reese|2011|loc=§10 "Works: canon and chronology"}} Major revision has also occurred in Josquin's biography, with entire portions of it being rewritten due to Josquin having been confused with people with similar names.{{sfn|Sherr|2017|loc=§ "Studies That Significantly Revised Josquin's Biography"}}{{refn|Sherr cited numerous articles as milestones in revising Josquin's biography, including {{harvtxt|Fallows|1996}}, {{harvtxt|Kellman|1976}}, {{harvtxt|Lockwood|1976}}, {{harvtxt|Matthews|Merkley|1998}}, {{harvtxt|Roth|2000}} and {{harvtxt|Starr|1997}}{{sfn|Sherr|2017|loc=§ "Studies That Significantly Revised Josquin's Biography"}}|group=n}} Controversy has arisen about the extent of Josquin's influence; there is no doubt about his importance in Western music, but some scholars have contended that the extent of his reevaluation has unrealistically [[Apotheosis|apotheosized]] him over his contemporaries.{{sfn|Macey|Noble|Dean|Reese|2011|loc=§10 "Works: canon and chronology"}}{{sfn|Sherr|2017|loc=§ "Problems: Character and Posthumous Reputation"}}{{sfn|Higgins|2004|pp=444–445}} Wegman asserts that Obrecht was more highly regarded in Josquin's time, to which Noble has noted that Josquin's prestigious positions, publications and employers "scarcely looks like the career of an unregarded composer".{{sfn|Macey|Noble|Dean|Reese|2011|loc=§10 "Works: canon and chronology"}} Reflecting on the dispute, Sherr has concluded that Josquin's reputation is somewhat lessened, but on the basis of his most admired and firmly attributed works "he remains one of the towering figures in the history of music".{{sfn|Sherr|2017|loc=§ "Introduction"}}<ref>[[#Sherr Introduction|Sherr 2000]], p. 10</ref>

Since the 1950s, Josquin's music has become central to the repertoire of many [[early music ensemble|early music vocal ensemble]]s and has been increasingly featured in recordings, with those by the [[Hilliard Ensemble]], [[Orlando Consort]], and [[A Sei Voci]] recommended by critics in the ''1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die'' (2017) survey.{{sfn|Rye|2017|p=32}}{{refn|See {{harvtxt|Urquhart|2000|loc=Appendix B (Discography)}}, and {{harvtxt|Charles|1983|p=127}}, for comprehensive discographies|group=n}} [[The Tallis Scholars]] have recorded all of Josquin's masses, and won the [[Gramophone Classical Music Awards|''Gramophone'' "record of the year"]] in 1987 for their recording of ''Missa Pange lingua'', the only early music group to do so.{{sfn|Rye|2017|p=32}}{{sfn|Higgins|2004|p=444}} Josquin's presence in 21st-century scholarship remains strong; he was the subject of [[David Fallows]]'s major monograph (2009), which is currently the standard biography for the composer, and he and Machaut were the only pre-Baroque composers to have entire chapters in Taruskin's ''[[Oxford History of Western Music]]'' (2005).{{sfn|Taruskin|2010|loc=§ "What Legends Do"}}{{sfn|Sherr|2017|loc=§ "Biographies and Overviews"}} The 500th anniversary of Josquin's death in 2021 was widely commemorated.{{sfn|Ross|2021}}{{sfn|Woolfe|2021}}