Orlando di Lasso (1532 – 1594)
The Complete Motets 1
Il primo libro de mottetti a cinque et a sei voci (Antwerp, 1556)
5–6 voices
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Details
- For
- 5–6 voices
- Product Type
- Score
- Author / Composer
- Orlando di Lasso
- Editor
- James Erb
- Product number
- 1160566
- Release Year
- 1998
Description
The Antwerp motet book of 1556 is Lasso's first publication that includes only his own motets, and it contributed greatly to the composer's renown. It includes five pieces addressed to exalted personages such as Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Archbishop of Arras; Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury; and the emperor Charles V.
The other motets are on religious texts, among them "Gustate et videte," which continued to be used in Munich's Corpus Christi processions into the 1580s. Lasso over...
