Biography
Johannes Regis (Jehan Leroy) (c.1425 – c.1496) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a well-known composer at the close of the 15th century, was a principal contributor to the Chigi Codex, and was secretary to Guillaume Dufay.
Two masses, seven motets, and two secular songs, both rondeaux, by Regis have survived.
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Regis is one of the first composers to have written for five voices, a standard grouping in the music of the next generation (for example, in the music of Josquin Desprez). Indeed his motets for five voices seem to have been used by the next generation, including Loyset Compère, Gaspar van Weerbeke, Josquin, and Jacob Obrecht as models for their own work.
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