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Orlando di Lasso

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Orlando di Lasso , 1532-94, Franco-Flemish composer, b. Mons, also known as Orlandus Lassus or Roland de Lassus. Lasso represents the culmination of Renaissance musical art. At age 12, he entered the service of Ferrante Gonzaga, viceroy of Sicily. Thereafter, he worked variously in Naples (1550-53), Rome (1553-54), and Munich (1556-94). In 1570 he was raised to a hereditary rank of nobility by Emperor Maximilian II, and in 1574 he became one of the very few musicians to receive a papal knighthood. Lasso brought Flemish polyphony to its highest development in the Renaissance and distilled in... Read more
Lasso, Orlando di
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Lasso, Orlando di. See Lassus, Orlande de . Read more
Lasso, Orlando di
World Encyclopedia Lasso, Orlando di (1532–94) Flemish composer of madrigals, masses, and motets. He was famous throughout Europe, and is ranked with Palestrina as one of the greatest composers of the late 16th century. He was a prolific composer and wrote more than 2000 pieces in all genres. Read more

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Orlando di Lasso. (Music Reviews).
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; Orlando di Lasso. II primo libro de mottetti a cinque...113-16. ISBN 0-89579-415-2. $51.95.] Orlando di Lasso. Cantiones aliquot quinque vocum (Munich...215-19. ISBN 0-89579-410-1. $84.95.] Orlando di Lasso. Moduli quinis vocibus nunquam hactenus... Read more
Orlando di Lasso: Seine Werke in zeitgenossischen Drucken, 1555-1687. (Book Reviews: Popular Musics).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; Orlando di Lasso: Seine Werke in zeitgenossischen Drucken...Horst Leuchtmann and Bernhold Schmid. (Orlando di Lasso. Samtliche Werke. Supplement.) Kassel...study of the composer's life and works (Orlando di Lasso und seine Zeit, 1532-1594 [Kassel: Barenreiter... Read more
The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso and Their Protestant Listeners: Music, Piety, and Print in Sixteenth-Century France. (Reviews).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; Richard Freedman, The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso and Their Protestant Listeners...collections of contrafacta chansons by Orlando di Lasso: Thomas Vautrollier's Recueil...the contrafacta chansons than Orlando di Lasso's original chansons.) The book... Read more
The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso: Music, Piety, and Print in Sixteenth-Century France. (Composers).
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso: Music, Piety, and Print in Sixteenth-Centu...out at the beginning of this book that Lasso's chansons were among the most widely...book's subject, however, is not simply Lasso's chansons but also their reception... Read more
Orlando di Lasso in der Musikgeschichte: Bericht uber das Symposion der Bayarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munchen, 4-6. Juli 1997.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...four hundredth anniversary of Orlando di Lasso's death. International in scope...und musikalische Gattung bei Orlando di Lasso ), in one of the most insightful...Simplex - Kompositionen von Orlando di Lasso trod Jacobus Gallus ) contrasts... Read more
Orlando di Lasso.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/2004; ; 277 words ; Orlando di Lasso. Il canzoniere de Messer Francesco Petrarca...Nevel. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901828, 2004. Orlando di Lasso was one of many sixteenth-century composers...music by one composer or another, and Lasso himself set more than sixty of them over... Read more
A tribute from Johannes Eccard to Orlando Di Lasso at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...tribute from Johannes Eccard to Orlando di Lasso, dated 1593 (fig. 1). How this...have an entry in the collection is Orlando di Lasso, whose music was highly esteemed...and Suetonius. In connection with Lasso, one such sixteenth-century collection... Read more
MADRIGAL CYCLE PLAYS WITH CONTINUALLY SHIFTING TEXTURES
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/27/1999; ; 418 words ; "Lagrime di San Pietro" -- "The...is the great Orlando di Lasso's final masterpiece...Schumann and Hugo Wolf, Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) was one...print. In "Lagrime di San Pietro," conductor...his program note, Lasso's creative spirit... Read more
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Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...could argue that the Netherlander Orlando di Lasso, and not Richard Strauss, was Bavaria...from 1556 to his death in 1594 - Lasso served as singer, chorusmaster, and...of lectures and concerts honoring Lasso in observance of the quadricentennial... Read more
Madrigal cycle plays with continually shifting textures
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/27/1999; ; 430 words ; ...Friday night "Lagrime di San Pietro...is the great Orlando di Lasso's final masterpiece...Schumann and Hugo Wolf, Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) was...print. In "Lagrime di San Pietro," conductor...his program note, Lasso's creative spirit... Read more

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