Dictionary of Music - Birding America

344 RenaissanceIMPORTANT RENAISSANCE COMPOSERS (continued)Composer Origin/Active in Noted forFrancisco Guerrero (1528–1599) Spain/Jaén, Seville, Italy Masses, motets, secular songs; pupil of Morales.Hans Leo Hassler (1564–1612) Germany/Augsburg, Nuremberg, Dresden, Sacred music in polychoral style, secular polyphonic songs,Venice organ music; pupil of Andrea Gabrieli.Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450–1517) Flemish/Florence, Germany, Innsbruck, Masses, motets, Choralis Constantinus (cycles of MassVienna Proper); songs in French, Dutch, Italian, and German,including famous “Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen.”Clément Janequin* (c. 1480–c. 1560) France/Paris, Bordeaux, Angers Chansons.Josquin des Prez* (c. 1445–1521) Flemish/Milan, Rome, Cambrai, Paris, Masses, motets, chansons.Ferrara, CondéPierre de La Rue (1455/60–1518) Flemish/Brussels, Netherlands, Spain Masses, motets, chansons.(Burgundian court of Hapsburgs)Orlando di Lasso* (1532–1594) Flemish/Italy, Antwerp, Munich Masses, motets, madrigals, chansons.Claude Le Jeune (c. 1528–c. 1600) France Polyphonic chansons, psalm settings in musique mesurée àl’antique (where poetic meter governs musical rhythm).Luca Marenzio (1553–1599) Italy/Rome, Florence, Poland 17 books of madrigals; also motets and other sacred vocalmusic.Claudio Merulo (1533–1604) Italy/Venice, Parma Famous organist; madrigals, motets, organ works(especially toccatas).Luis Milán* (c. 1500–c. 1561) Spain/Valencia Vihuela virtuoso; earliest collection of vihuela pieces andfirst with tempo indications.Philippe de Monte (1521–1603) Flemish/Belgium, Italy, Spain, England, Madrigals, Masses, motets; also chansons.AustriaCristóbal de Morales (c. 1500–1553) Spain/Avila, Toledo, Málaga, Rome Masses, motets, other church music.Thomas Morley* (1557–1602) England Madrigals, instrumental works, sacred choral music.Jean Mouton (c. 1459–1522) France/Amiens, Grenoble, Brittany, Paris About 100 secular and sacred motets; also Masses,chansons; colleague of Josquin, teacher of Willaert, courtcomposer to Francis I.Luis de Narváez (fl. 1530–1550) Spain/Spain, Italy, northern Europe Vihuela virtuoso; wrote first known variations (diferencias)for vihuela; also other vihuela music.Jacob Obrecht* (c. 1450–1505) Flemish/Cambrai, Bruges, Antwerp, Italy Motets, Masses.Johannes Ockeghem* (c. 1420–1495) Flemish/Paris, Tours Motets, Masses.Diego Ortiz (born c. 1510) Spain/Toledo, Naples Viola da gamba virtuoso; treatise on variations andornamentation; sacred music.Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina* Italy/Rome Masses, motets.(c. 1525–1594)Jean Richafort (c. 1480–1548) Flemish?/French court Masses, motets, chansons; pupil of Josquin.