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People In Music History
Lassus, Roland de (Italianized form, Orlando di Lasso) (ca. 1528-1594) Flemish
composer. Choirboy in Mons, his birthplace; afterwards choirmaster at the
Church of St. John Lateran, Rome; worked in Antwerp before serving at the
Bavarian court in Munich. He settled there (traveling to Italy, however), and
died in Munich. His works, all for two or (usually) more voices, number more
than 2,000 and include madrigals and similar works, French, German, and Italian
poetry, and religious music: masses, motets, miscellaneous biblical settings in
Latin, settings of various texts in Italian, etc. He was preoccupied with such
religious settings toward the end of his life.