Orlando di Lasso
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Aliases: Orlande de Lassus, Orlandus Lassus, Roland de Lassus, Roland Delattre
Life
Born: 1532
Died: 14 June 1594
Biography
View the Wikipedia article on Orlando di Lasso.
List of choral works
- For works at CPDL sorted alphabetically by title, see Orlando di Lasso compositions
Sacred music
Sacred music in Latin (A-C)
Sacred music in Latin (D-G)
Sacred music in Latin (H-L)
Sacred music in Latin (M-O)
Sacred music in Latin (P-Q)
Sacred music in Latin (R-Z)
Sacred music in German
Sacred music in Italian
- Lagrime di San Pietro
- Il magnanimo Pietro
- Ma gli archi
- Tre volte haveva
- Qual a l'incontro
- Giovane donna
- Così talhor
- Ogni occhio del Signor
- Nessun fedel trovai
- Chi ad una ad una
- Come falda di neve
- E non fu il pianto suo
- Quel volto
- Veduto il miser
- E vago d'incontrar
- Vattene vita va
- O vita troppo rea
- A quanti già felici
- Non trovava mia fé
- Queste opre e più
- Negando il mio signor
- Vide homo
Secular music
Secular music in French
Secular music in German
Secular music in Italian or Neapolitan
Secular music in Latin
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Publications
Lasso was one of the most prolific composers of the 16th century, and as such published an unusually large number of works, in a large number of languages and genres. Many went through several subsequent editions -- most notably, his first book of 4-voice madrigals went through 14 distinct editions from 1560 to 1592. The table below lists his major publications, along with year of first printing, genre of works contained, number of voices, and other notes.
Original prints
Name | Genre | Voices | First Publication | Notes |
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Le quatoirsiesme livre a 4 parties | Mixed | 4 | 1555 | Lasso's first publication, commonly referred to as "Opus 1". Contains 12 madrigals and 6 each of villanelles, chansons, and motets. |
"Viersprachendruck" | Mixed | 4, 8 | 1573 | Known as the "Four-Language Print." Contains 6 each of motets, lieder, chansons, and madrigals. |
Madrigali a 4 voci, libro primo | Madrigal | 4 | 1560 | Lasso's first and only book of madrigals for 4 voices. |
Primo libro di madrigali a 5 voci | Madrigal | 5 | 1555 | |
Secondo libro di madrigali a 5 voci | Madrigal | 5 | 1557 | |
Terzo libro di madrigali a 5 voci | Madrigal | 5 | 1563 | |
Libro quarto de madrigali a 5 voci | Madrigal | 5 | 1567 | |
Madrigali: novamente compostia a 5 voci | Madrigal | 5 | 1583 | |
Madrigali: a 4, 5, e 6 voci, novamente composte | Madrigal | 4-6 | 1587 | Effectively Lasso's last book of madrigals, his seventh in total. |
Lagrime di San Pietro | Spiritual Madrigal | 7 | 1595 | Lasso's final work, completed just before his death in 1595. |
Libro de villanelle, moresche, ed altre canzoni | Villanelle | 4-8 | 1581 | |
Premier livre des chansons a 4 et 5 parties | Chanson | 4-5 | 1564 | |
Second livre des chansons a 4 et 5 parties | Chanson | 4-5 | Pre-1570 | Contrary to its name, the majority of this publication is dedicated to Italian madrigals. |
Tiers livre des chansons a 4, 5, et 6 parties | Chanson | 4-6 | 1560 | |
Quatriesme livre des chansons a 4 et 5 parties | Chanson | 4-5 | 1564 | |
Nouvelles chansons a 4 parties, le premier livre | Chanson | 4 | 1566 | |
Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus (...) a 4, 5, 6, 8, et 10 parties | Chanson | 4-10 | 1570 | A large compilation of Lasso's chansons. Also contains a number of secular motets. |
Etliche auserlesne kürtze gute geistliche und weltliche Liedlein mit 4 Stimmen | Chanson | 4 | 1582 | A book of pre-existing chansons re-set to German texts. |
Neue teütsche Liedlein mit 5 Stimmen | Lieder | 5 | 1567 | Lasso's first book of lieder. |
Der ander Theil teutscher Lieder mit 5 Stimmen | Lieder | 5 | 1572 | Lasso's second book of lieder. |
Der dritte Teil schöner, neuer, teutscher Lieder (...) mit 5 Stimmen | Lieder | 5 | 1576 | Lasso's third book of lieder. |
Fuerstlichen Bayrischen Cappellenmeisters Teutsche Lieder mit 5 Stimmen | Lieder | 5 | 1583 | Lasso's first three books of lieder combined. |
Neue teutsche Lieder, geistlich und weltlich mit 4 Stimmen | Lieder | 4 | 1583 | Lasso's fourth book of lieder. |
Neue teutsche, und etliche frantzösische Gesäng mit 6 Stimmen | Lieder | 6 | 1590 | Lasso's last book of lieder, which also included some French chansons. |
Teutsche Psalmen: geistliche Psalmen mit 3 Stimmen | Sacred Lieder | 3 | 1588 | A book of 3-voice German Psalms. |
Il primo libro de mottetti a 5 et a 6 voci | Motet | 5-6 | 1556 | Lasso's first book of motets. Not all are on sacred subjects. |
Sacrae cantiones quinque vocum | Motet | 5 | 1562 | |
Thesaurus musicus | Motet | 4-8 | 1564 | An enormous 5-volume collection of sacred music by various composers, with one volume for 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 voices, respectively. Pieces by Lasso appear in each book, for a total of 17 motets. One secular piece (the 8-voice Jam lucis orto sidere, a drinking song parodying a Christian hymn) is included. |
Sacrae lectiones novem ex propheta Iob, in officiis defunctorum cantari solitae | Motet | 4 | 1565 (Venice) | |
Modulorum 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 10 vocibus (...) secundum volumen | Motet | 4-10 | 1565 | |
Sacrae cantiones (...) liber secundus | Motet | 5-6 | 1566 | |
Sacrae cantiones (...) liber tertius | Motet | 5-6 | 1566 | |
Sacrae cantiones (...) liber quartus | Motet | 6-8 | 1566 | |
Selectissimae cantiones | Motet | 4-8 | 1568 | In two volumes. |
Cantiones aliquot 5 vocum | Motet | 5 | 1569 | |
Selectiorum aliquot cantionum sacrarum 6 vocum | Motet | 6 | 1570 | |
Moduli quinis vocibus nunquam hactenus editi | Motet | 5 | 1571 | |
Patronicium musices (...) prima pars | Motet | 4-6 | 1573 | |
Patrocinium musices … passio, 5vv idem lectiones Iob, et lectiones matutinae de nativitate Christi, 4vv, quarta pars | Motet, Passion | 4, 5 | 1575 (Munich) | |
Liber mottetarum 3 vocum | Motet | 3 | 1575 | |
Novae aliquot, ad 2 voces cantiones | Motet | 2 | 1577 | A book of 24 duets. Half are textless, and may have been meant for instruments. |
Lectiones sacrae novem, ex libris Hiob excerptae | Motet | 4 | 1582 (Munich) | |
Sacrae cantiones (...) 5 vocum | Motet | 5 | 1582 | Not to be confused with Lasso's previous set of four "Sacrae cantiones" publications. |
Mottetta, 6 vocum, typis nondum uspiam excusa | Motet | 6 | 1582 | |
Psalmi Davidis Poenitentialis | Motet | 2-6 | 1584 | A setting of the Penitential Psalms of David. |
Sacrae cantiones (...) 4 vocum | Motet | 4 | 1585 | Not to be confused with Lasso's previous set of four "Sacrae cantiones" publications. |
Cantica sacra sex et octo vocibus | Motet | 6, 8 | 1585 | |
Hieremiæ prophetæ lamentationes, et aliæ piæ cantiones | Motet | 5 | 1585 | Contains Lasso's 5-voice setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah in addition to several other motets. A 4-voice setting of the same text also exists in manuscript form, written c.1588. |
Cantiones sacrae 6 vocum | Motet | 6 | 1594 | Lasso's last book of motets. |
Cantiones 5 vocum ab Orlando di Lasso et huius filio Ferdinando di Lasso | Motet | 5 | 1597 | A joint publication with works by both Orlando di Lasso and his son Ferdinand di Lasso. |
Prophetiae Sibyllarum | Motet | 4 | 1600 | A collection of unusually chromatic motets set to various prophecies of twelve of the Grecian Sibyls, published several years after Lasso's death. According to the date written on an autograph manuscript, they were likely composed sometime before 1560. |
Cantiones sacrae 6 vocibus | Motet | 6 | 1601 | Another joint publication between Orlando and his son Ferdinand. |
Magnum Opus Musicum | Motet | 2-12 | 1604 | An enormous posthumous publication consisting of 514 of Lasso's collected motets, a large portion of his sacred output. Link is to the IMSLP article. |
Modern editions
- Sämtliche Werke (Haberl et al., 1894–1927)
- Complete Motets RRRM
- Sämtliche Werke neue Reihe (Bärenreiter, 1956–95)
External links
- http://www.musicologie.org/Biographies/lassus_roland.html – see bibliography