Orlande de Lassus

Orlande de Lassus (also known as Orlando di Lasso) was a Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer whose extensive output spans sacred and secular music in several languages.

Renaissance music: European art music composed from about 1400 to 1600, marked by expanding polyphony and renewed interest in textual expression. Lassus was one of the leading composers of this musical period.
Ducal court of Bavaria: The court of the Bavarian dukes, based in Munich during Lassus’s principal period of service there. Lassus directed music at this court, which supported much of his mature career.
Cipriano de Rore: A Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer known especially for madrigals and sacred music. Rore’s generation helped shape the northern Italian musical culture Lassus encountered early in his career.
Prophetiae Sibyllarum: A cycle of twelve Latin motets by Lassus, notable for unusually chromatic harmony. The cycle displays a striking, concentrated experiment within his sacred output.
Franco-Flemish School: A succession of composers from the Low Countries who shaped European polyphony from the fifteenth through sixteenth centuries. Lassus is commonly placed among its final major composers.
Motet: A polyphonic vocal composition, usually sacred and based on a Latin text. Lassus’s many motets show his command of sacred counterpoint and textual expression.
Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria: Duke of Bavaria from 1550 to 1579 and a major patron of arts and music. Albrecht V employed Lassus and helped establish Munich as a major musical center.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: An Italian Renaissance composer celebrated for sacred polyphony and his long service in Rome. Palestrina represents a prominent Italian sacred style often compared with Lassus’s more international output.
Lagrime di San Pietro: A cycle of twenty Italian madrigals by Lassus on Luigi Tansillo’s poem about Saint Peter’s remorse. This late work combines the madrigal with an extended meditation on grief and repentance.
Orlando di Lasso: The Italianized form of the name used for the same sixteenth-century composer known in English as Orlande de Lassus. His works circulated under several forms of his name across different languages and regions.

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