Editing Heinrich Isaac (section)

== Early life ==
Little is known about Isaac's early life (or indeed what he called himself), but it is probable that he was born in the [[Duchy of Brabant|Brabant]]. During the late 15th century, standards of music education in the region were excellent, and he was probably educated in his homeland, although the location is not known.<ref name="Musicians 2001">New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. December 2001. Stanley Sadie</ref><ref>Isaac in Flanders: The Early Works of Henricus Isaac</ref> Sixteenth-century Swiss music theorist and writer [[Heinrich Glarean]] claimed Isaac for Germany by dubbing him "Henricus Isaac Germanus", but in his will Isaac called himself by the [[patronymic]] "Ugonis de Flandria", '[[Genitive case|Hugo's]] [son] from Flanders'.  A writer in the Milanese ''Revista critica della letteratura italiana'', June 1886, speculated that this patronymic might be connected to 'Huygens' and discovered the name "Isaacke" in the town archives of [[Bruges]].