Jacobus Florius

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Jacobus Florius (* around 1552 possibly in Maastricht ; † after 1599) was a Franco-Flemish composer , singer and conductor of the Renaissance . Jacobus Florius was a son of Franciscus Florius . No information has survived about his early years and training period. After his father worked at the ducal Bavarian court in Munich during the years in question , the music researcher EF Schmid (1962) assumed that Jacobus received his training as a choir boy there; But there is no evidence for this. In 1571 Jacobus Florius applied for the position of bass singer at the ducal court in Stuttgart . There is evidence that he was in Aquileia in 1572 and in Venice the following yearstopped. Somewhat older information speaks of the fact that he worked as a bass singer with the Brotherhood of Mary in 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands from 1572 to 1574 . His name was entered as a singer in the lists of the Innsbruck court orchestra for 1573 and 1574. In 1574 he dedicated a mass he composed to Emperor Maximilian II , probably as an application for a position in Vienna , but received only 20 guilders in return. In 1575 the composer apparently wanted to retire to Flanders , which is why Orlando di Lasso asked Wilhelm V.(then hereditary prince) asked for a letter of recommendation for Jacobus Florius. His actual stay after that is not known, but it is certain that he returned to Innsbruck for a short time in 1581 and applied again for a position at the Stuttgart court, but without success. In

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