When was orlando de lassus born

He stayed there for the rest of his life, although several other kings and aristocrats offered him jobs in other places. He had many honours, including being knighted by the Pope. In his health started to be bad. In his employer decided it was costing him too much to employ Lassus, so he wrote a letter to him to say that he was dismissed that he no longer had a job.

Lassus never saw the letter, because that very same day he died. Lassus composed a lot of church music. He had to compose masses for the morning and evening services. Many of these are parody masses , which means they were based on tunes from other compositions. Others were influenced by composers from Venice. He wrote many motets which were probably sung at services as well. In some of these motets he shows a sense of humour.

For example, one of his motets makes fun about bad singers: the music stops and starts and stutters. It was a kind of musical joke. Sometimes he had to write music for special occasions. He had visited Italy several times and learned the Italian way of writing polyphonic music. Church Music Lassus wrote a considerable quantity of church music, including over 70 settings of the Mass, settings of the Passions from the four evangelists, and a very large number of motets. Secular Vocal Music The secular vocal compositions of Lassus include madrigals, in the Italian style, some French chansons, and a much smaller number of German Lieder, all of great interest and forming a large body of work, including settings of Petrarch, Ariosto, Ronsard and Marot, from which selection is again invidious.

View by Role: Classical Composer Lyricist. Role: Classical Composer. Album Title. Catalogue No. Work Category. Beyond Chant Mysteries of the Renaissance. Choral - Sacred Discover Early Music.

Choral - Sacred Lamentations Oxford Camerata. Thomsen, Musica Ficta, Holten. Vocal Ensemble Renaissance Masterpieces. Accademia Strumentale Italiana. He evidently was happy in Munich and decided to settle there.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was the most famous 16th century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina had a vast influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, and his work can be seen as a summation of Renaissance polyphony. Information about his early years is scanty, although some uncorroborated stories have survived, the most famous of which is that he was kidnapped three times because of the singular beauty of his singing voice.

Palestrina lived during the period of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation and was a primary representative of the 16th-century conservative approach to church music. He served twice as maestro di cappella — musical director — of the Cappella Giulia Julian Chapel , the choir at St.