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.
Moduli quinis vocibus nunquam hactenus editi (Paris, 1571)
for: 5 voices
Score
Item no.: 1160553
Liber mottetarum trium vocum (Munich, 1575)
Novae aliquot, ad duas voces cantiones (Munich, 1577)
for: 2–3 voices
Score
Item no.: 1160549
Mottetta, sex vocum, typis nondum uspiam excusa (Munich, 1582)
for: 6 voices
Score
Item no.: 1160547
Choral
for: SSAATTBB
Choir score
Item no.: 900778
Matona, mia cara
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 907199
Régi mesterek vegyeskarai 5
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850381
Klassik
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 851556
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 822701
Messen der Drucke Paris 1607 und München 1610
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 8
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115892
Item no.: 553804
Motetten XI (Magnum opus musicum, Teil XI)
Alte Folge Band 18
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1551758
Versuch einer Bestandsaufnahme der biographischen Einzelheiten
Book
Item no.: 1677897
Item no.: 312572
GIA Evoking Sound
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1153555
for: 4 voices [instruments]
Item no.: 475364
for: Voice (alto)
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 307628
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 388024
Klassik
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 854018
Justorum Animae In Mane Dei Sunt
for: 5-Part Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 992499
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309748
Wohl kommt der Mai
for: Chor und Klavier
Choir score
Item no.: 865160
Chor
Chorpartitur
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625848
Musicum Band 1 für 2
Blockflöten, Spielpartitur
for: HOLZBLASINSTRUMENTE BLOCKFLÖTE OHNE TASTENINSTRUMENT AA
Item no.: 181735
Lord, my foes are yet
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039093
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1039799
This glad day He appeared
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1038228
Vol. 19: Motets X (Magnum opus musicum, Part X
for: Choir
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 797677
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 906615
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 387242
Cantiones aliqout quinque vocum (Munich, 1569)
Ten Motets from Selectiorum aliquot cantionum sacrarum sex vocum fasciculus (Munich, 1570)
for: 5–6 voices
Score
Item no.: 1160554
Patrocinium musices, prima pars (Munich, 1573)
for: 4–6 voices
Score
Item no.: 1160551
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317574
Flexible 4 Series
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 867497
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321661
Southern Music
for: 4 horns (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 925666
Das Chorwerk 13
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 135670
"Lanzknecht"-Ständchen
Schott Chormusik
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203548
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 18
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116269
Handschriftlich überlieferte Messen IV. Anhang, Fragmente, Modelle, Register
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 12
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116267
Motetten-Zyklus auf Sprüche der Sibyllen
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 21
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 587406
Messen des Druckes Paris 1577
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 4
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115888
7 Kompositionen aus wiedergefundenen Drucken 1559-1588
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 1
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 115886
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906767
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 428125
for: BFL ENSEMBLE (SSAATTBB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 550212
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