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.
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 851902
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931287
Early Music Library 256
for: Choir (8 voices); 8 instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 376738
Early Music Library 54
for: 10 GES (INST)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 376735
Mapa Mundi 17
for: Mixed choir (8 parts) a cappella
Item no.: 304002
Per Cantare E Sonare
for: 10 GES (INST)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 334553
6st gemischter Chor(latein/deutsch)
Item no.: 119544
Hor che la nuova e vaga primavera
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Piano score
Item no.: 379375
for: Choir
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 387513
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203572
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 307497
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423196
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 984985
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1136667
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1121031
for: 5-Part Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 992500
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 854207
for: 3 recorders (SAT)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1207068
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906767
for: BFL ENSEMBLE (SSAATTBB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 550212
Afterword, Addenda and Corrigenda, Indexes
for: 4 voices
Book
Item no.: 1160537
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano 2
Item no.: 388258
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388190
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388139
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309727
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 428125
for: 2 Voices
Book
Item no.: 992430
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 853238
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092263
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912581
for: 2 guitars
Item no.: 341308
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 330830
for: Choir
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 387514
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 304471
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 852046
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 851877
for: 4-Part Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 852791
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 923996
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930998
for: Mixed Choir [SATB] A Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 998631
for: Voice
Choir score
Item no.: 1175137
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388174
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388068
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 387879
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