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Orlando di Lasso
Franco-Flemish composer (1532–1594)
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Name
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The Life and Work of Lassus
A while back I came to the realisation that I often forget Bartók. I was brought up to think of the history of 20th century music as being divided into one of two strands: you either followed Schoenberg or you followed Stravinsky. So this meant we thought of Schoenberg and Stravinsky as the two most important composers of the 20th century. But when I really thought about it, I felt Bartók should be up there as well and now I tend to think of three rather than two strands of musical thought in the 20th century. (Of course there are millions, but the idea of three is easier to handle.)
Only recently I realised I was doing exactly the same thing with the 16th century. Think of High Renaissance music - and that usually means church music - and two composers come to mind: Palestrina and Victoria. But then I realised that there is a third name which should be absolutely right up there with both these giants, someone I knew about and whose music I loved, but someone who doesn't seem to get the publicity given to Palestrina and Victoria. This post is about him.
The problem is, who is he? I mean, we know who he is, but his name has so many variants in different languages. In English we tend to just call him Lassus. He was a Franco-Flemis
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Orlande de Lassus
Orlande de Lassus (whose name is also spelt Orlandus Lassus, Orlando di Lasso, Roland de Lassus, or Roland Delattre) (born Mons, Hainaut, probably in 1532; died Munich, 14 June 1594) was a Franco-Flemishcomposer who lived in the last part of the Renaissance. Lassus and Palestrina are the two most famous composers of that time who were writing church music in a polyphonic style.
Life
[change | change source]He was born in Mons in the province of Hainaut in the Low Countries which is mostly what is today the south part of the Netherlands and Belgium. We know very little about his childhood. There is a story that, when he was a choirboy, he was abducted three times by another church who wanted him to sing in their choir because he had a beautiful voice. There is no proof that this story is true. At the age of twelve he left his country and went to Mantua, Sicily, and later to Milan in Italy and then to Naples where he worked until the early 1550s. Next he moved to Rome, where he worked for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who had a large household there. In 1553, he became maestro di cappella of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome. This was an excellent job for a man who was only 21 years old. However, he only stayed there a year. La