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| − | Orlande de '''Lassus''' (Orlando de Lasso, Orlandus Lassus and other variations) (c1530/32-1594), [[France|Franco]]-[[Flemish]] composer, was one of the greatest composers of his age, the most respected of the Flemish school of composing and certainly a composer whose volume and variety of output has been rarely matched in any age.
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| − | He was a catholic who spent time in [[Italy]] and wrote music for all the rites of his church, [[Mass (music)|masses]], [[motet]]s, [[canticle]]s, [[antiphon]]s, [[psalms]], [[Magnificat]]s and many ceremonial works, and music for occasions. However he spent the last 30 years of his life at the protestant court of the Duke of Bavaria in [[Munich]] and there wrote music appropriate for its setting.
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| − | He wrote prodigiously and in every genre of his age, both sacred and secular. He is an important figure in the history of the [[madrigal]], the [[chanson]], all forms of choral music, and could write in the various national styles of the day. He is acknowledged as being a central cultural figure of the [[Renaissance]].
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