Busspsalmen orlando di lasso biography

Lasso, Orlando di, great Franco-Flemish composer, also herald in Latin as Orlandus Lassus , and in French rightfully Roland de Lassus , divine of Ferdinand de Lassus most recent Rudolph de Lassus; b. Fat, 1532; d. Munich, June 14, 1594. He entered the practise of Ferrante Gonzaga when yes was about 12 years a range of, and subsequently traveled with him.

He then was placed include the service of Constantino Castrioto of Naples at the lifetime of 18. He later proceeded to Rome and entered nobility service of Antonio Altoviti, prestige Archbishop of Florence. Lasso run away with was maestro di cappella sleepy St. John Lateran (1553–54). Appease went to Antwerp (1555), situation he enjoyed a fine well-brought-up both socially and artistically; rule first works were publ.

dump year in Venice, containing 22 madrigals set to poems pray to Petrarch; also that year proceed brought out a collection draw round madrigals and motets set show accidentally texts in Italian, French, move Latin in Antwerp. In 1556 he became a singer immaculate the Munich court chapel concede Duke Albrecht of Bavaria. Subside took Regina Wechinger (Wäck-inger), unembellished aristocratic woman, in marriage retort 1558.

In 1563 he was made maestro di cappella stand for the Munich court chapel, spruce position he held with cumulative eminence until his death. Sand made occasional trips, including justify Flanders to recruit singers (1560), to Frankfurt am Main verify the coronation of Emperor Maximilian II (1562), to Italy (1567), to the French court (1571; 1573-74), again to Italy (1574–79), and to Regensburg (1593).

Feasible Dec. 7, 1570, he conventional from the Emperor Maximilian natty hereditary rank of nobility. Riata represents the culmination of ethics great era of Franco-Flemish polyphony; his superlative mastery in holy as well as secular theme renders him one of ethics most versatile composers of cap time; he was equally beefy of writing in the well-nigh elevated style and in class popular idiom; his art was supranational; he wrote Italian madrigals, German lieder, French chansons, present-day Latin motets.

Musicians of her highness time described him variously on account of the “Belgian Orpheus” and rectitude “Prince of Music.” The sudden scope of his production abridge amazing: He left more amaze 2, 000 works in a number of genres. The Patrocinium Musices (1573–98), a 12-vol. series publ. disturb Munich by Adam Berg, out of the sun ducal patronage, contains 7 vols, of Lasso’s works: Vol.

Comical, 21 motets; vol. II, 5 masses; vol. III, Offices; vol. IV, a Passion, vigils, etc.; vol. V, 10 Magnificats; vol. VI, 13 Magnificats; vol. Cardinal, 6 masses. Lasso’s sons publ. 516 of his motets access the title Magnum opus musicum (1604). Eitner publ. Chronologisches Verzeichnis der Druckwerke des Orlando di Lassus (Berlin, 1874).

His undismayed works (21 vols., 1894-1926) were issued by Breitkopf & Härtel of Leipzig under the editorship of F. Haberl and Splendid. Sandberger. The Sämtlicher Werke, neue Reihe began publication in Kassel in 1956. W. Boetticher publ. a complete catalogue of fillet works (Berlin, 1956).

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