Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) was one of the most important composers of the Renaissance Period. While Palestrina was well recognised in the Roman territories, Orlando di Lasso was a truly multicultural artist, whose reputation spanned the whole of Europe. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all his master works with Stretta Music today!
Orlando di Lasso was the last great Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance Period. Di Lasso was very well travelled, and in his work, there are traces of many different European cultures including Holland, Sicily, Italy, England, France and Germany.
On finishing his studies in 1556, he joined the Munich Court Orchestra, one of the top ensembles of its time, becoming the musical director in 1564, a post he held for the rest of his life. Here, di Lasso had an impressive number of musicians at his disposal for the time, 56 singers and 30 instrumentalists. Orlando di Lasso also taught a number of prominent composers, including Johannes Eccard and Giovanni Gabrieli.
Orlando di Lasso wrote a great deal of Sacred Music. He wrote over 1200 motets, which have a relatively free structure, and often adopt simple song melodies as motifs or “cantus firmus”. He also composed Masses, Magnificat & Nunc Dimitis’, Lamentations and Psalms.
About half of his output however falls under Secular Music. Di Lasso composed madrigals, villanelles, chansons and songs, which not only showcase his masterful polyphonic technique, but also his sense of humour, for example in the madrigals “Mattona mia cara” and“ Echo”. The modern harmonic developments of the time, the move away from plagal tonality towards modern harmonic tonal music, slowly filtered into di Lasso’s works, and it began to take on the tonal harmony we recognise today.
Novello Short Biographies 11
Book (softcover)
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Choral
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Choir score
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Choir score
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Brass Ensemble
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Score, Parts
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The Italian Madrigals
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Score
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Altus / Tenor
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Sheet music
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Ensemble score, solo parts
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Renaissance Music Prints 6
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Score
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Cantus/Altus
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Ensemble score (pdf download)
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Tweestake 3
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Item no.: 476039
for: 2 recorders (SA/TB)
Music score
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Musicum Band 1 für 2
Blockflöten, Spielpartitur
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for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
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for two voices or recorders
complete edtion
score
for: 2 voices [2 recorders (ST)]
Ensemble score
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Item no.: 553804
Cantus/Altus
for: Oboe, bassoon
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1918
for: Violin, cello
Ensemble score
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12 vokale Kompositionen für Sopran + Alt oder Tenor + Bass
in originaler Notation mit Umschrift in moderne Notenschlüssel
Score
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Cantus/Altus
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Ensemble score (pdf download)
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This glad day He appeared
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Einzelstimme
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aus "Le premier livre de Chansons", Antwerpen 1564
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Sheet music
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aus: "Newe Teütsche Liedlein mit Fünff Stimmen / welche gantz lieblich zu singen / vnd auff allerley Instrumenten zu gebrauchen."
München, 1567
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Score
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Musik Der Renaissance
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Score
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Motetten-Zyklus auf Sprüche der Sibyllen
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 21
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Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
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Magnum opus musicum, Teil I
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Score (Urtext edition)
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Renaissance Masters
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Score
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Score
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Cantus/Altus
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Renaissance Masters
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Score
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(Urtext)
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Orial Library
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Score, Parts
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Score
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Motetten XI (Magnum opus musicum, Teil XI)
Alte Folge Band 18
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Score (Urtext edition)
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Choral
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Choir score
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Geistliche Musik
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Klassik
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Treasury Choral
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für 2 Viole da gamba (Violine und Viola/Viola und Violoncello)
Music score
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Ich waiss mir ein Meidlein huebsch und fein
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Madrigal
Mädele, heer mik singen
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Régi mesterek vegyeskarai 5
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Bonjour, Mon Coeur
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Choir score
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Score
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Klassik
for: 4-Part Flexible Band
Score
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Handschriftlich überlieferte Messen II
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 10
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
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Messen der Drucke Venedig 1570 und München 1574
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 3
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115887
Nunc dimittis, Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel, Miserere mei Deus, Responsorien, Antiphonae, zweifelhafte Werke
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 24
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Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
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aus "Missa on me l' a dit"
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Sheet music
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Choir score
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