Orlando di Lasso

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Orlando di Lasso (also Orlande de Lassus, Orlandus Lassus, Roland de Lassus, or Roland Delattre) (1532 (possibly 1530) – June 14, 1594) was a Franco-Flemish composer of late Renaissance music. Along with Palestrina (of the Roman School), he is today considered to be the chief representative of the mature polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish School, and he was the most famous and influential musician in Europe at the end of the 16th century. He was born in Mons in the province of Hainaut, in what is today Belgium. 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. At the age of twelve he left the Low Countries with Ferrante Gonzaga and went to Mantua, Sicily, and later Milan (from 1547 to 1549). While in Milan he made the acquaintance of the madrigalist Spirito l'Hoste da Reggio, an influence which was formative on his early musical style. He then worked as a singer and a composer for Costantino Castrioto in Naples in the early 1550s, and his first works are presumed to date from this time. Next he moved to Rome, where he worked for Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who maintained a household there; and in 1553, he became maestro di cappella of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome, a spectacularly prestigious post for a man only twenty-one years old, but he stayed there only for a year (Pales

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Choral Music (17Th Century) - Marenzio, L. / Palestrina, G.P. Da / Monteverdi, C. / Gesualdo, C. / Schutz, H.

Lasso: Lagrime Di San Pietro

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Choral Recital: Osnabruck Youth Choir - Weelkes, T. / Tallis, T. / Lassus, O. / Ludovico Da Vittoria / Gesualdo, C. / Lotti, A. / Palestrina, G.P.

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Vocal Music (Renaissance) - Victoria, T.L. De / Lasso, O. Di / Josquin Des Prez / Senfl, L. / Rore, C. De / Utendal, A. (Factor Orbis)

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Lassus, O.: Vocal Music

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Requiem

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The Best Of The Renaissance

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Аэростат vol. 124

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Venice Music

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The American Boy Choir On Tour

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LASSUS: Masses for Five Voices / Infelix ego

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Music for Three, Four, And Twenty Lutes

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