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.
Missale Romanum (Ordinarium) (GL 104-107)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755717
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 26
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 459223
(Venezia 1610) [original clefs]
for: 2 voices
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 549795
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340196
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 229663
Motets from Quinque et sex vocibus perornatae sacrae cantiones (Venice, 1565)
Motets for Five to Eight Voices from Sacrae cantiones, liber secundus, tertius, quartus (Venice, 1566)
for: 5–6 voices
Score
Item no.: 1160558
Cantica sacra sex et octo vocibus (Munich, 1585)
for: 6–8 voices
Score
Item no.: 1160545
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 945283
for: 2 saxophones (AT)
Ensemble score, solo parts
Item no.: 276982
Geistliche Musik
for: SAT Men's Voices
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 910760
Ola, o che buon eco!
for: SSA/SSA Double Chorus a Cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 907151
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850825
After They All Say Sing
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317567
Collection
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 871090
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375006
for: gemischter Chor (dreistimmig)
Choir score
Item no.: 1628403
for: Women's choir (SA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822472
Harmonia-Womens Choir
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 914131
Kompositionen mit italienischem Text IV
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1013015
Magnum opus musicum, Teil VII
for: Mixed choir (6 voices) a cappella
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 773843
Ich waiss mir ein Meidlein huebsch und fein
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1037813
für 2 Viole da gamba (Violine und Viola/Viola und Violoncello)
Music score
Item no.: 674985
1532–1594
Repertoire–Untersuchungen zur Musik der Spätrenaissance
Verzeichnis der Werke
Quellenkatalog zur Musikgeschichte 27/ 28
3 Books (Hardcover)
Item no.: 456555
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 553847
Madrigal
Mädele, heer mik singen
for: Mixed choir (4 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115704
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 200677
Orlando di Lasso. Sämtliche Werke (Neue Reihe) 2
for: Choir
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 561712
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 420749
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
(latein)
Item no.: 409612
Magnum opus musicum, Teil II
for: Mixed choir (4–5 parts) a cappella
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 186048
Madrigal
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Piano score
Item no.: 379369
Klassik
for: 4-Part Flexible Band
Score
Item no.: 1183324
Motets from Printed Anthologies and Manuscripts, 1555-1569
for: 4–6 voices
Score
Item no.: 1160544
Muzika Ensemble Music
for: Flexible Instrumentation
Score, Parts
Item no.: 443968
for Brass Double Quartet
for: Wind ensemble (8 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 302308
for: BLECHBLASINSTRUMENTE HORN VIER UND MEHR HÖRNER
Item no.: 485798
Treasury Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 802740
Flexible 4 Series
for: Concert Band/Harmonie/Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 893135
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850529
Offertorium
Psalm 54, 2-3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3369
Cantus/Altus
for: 2 saxophones (AT)
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1921
Madrigal
Mädele, heer mik singen
for: Mixed choir (4 voices) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1666987
aus: Etliche außerlesene kurtze gute geistliche und weltliche Liedlein
München, 1582
hohe Ausgabe (Original kl. Terz tiefer)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6032
Super flumina Babylonis
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1159476
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: SATBSATB
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 909408
De profundis clamavi
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1337874
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 932682
for: Violin, cello
Ensemble score
Item no.: 940136