a composer of the Franco-Flemish (or Dutch) school of music. He was the most famous and popular European composer during his lifetime and immediately after his death. Lass was far ahead of any other composer of his time in publications and for 100 years afterward. In later centuries, however, preference is given to Palestrina, a contemporary of Lasso, when it comes to the music of that era.Orlando Lass was a composer with a very broad profile. He had to quickly write music both for the secular court of the Duke of Bavaria and for religious institutions. He wrote about 2,000 works during his life, the complete catalog of which was published only in 1956. Berlin (compiled by W. Boettcher). in 1604 The Sons of Lasso published Magnum Opus Musicum, a capital collection of 516 motets. Lasas worked successfully in almost all genres of the time, except purely instrumental music. He wrote music equally well in Latin, French, Italian and German. Las left about 60 masses, 4 musical arrangements of Passions, Lamentations and Responsories for St. Weeks for sacred music, about 1300 motets, 175 madrigals and villanelles, 150 chansons, 100 magnificats, 70 German songs - lids. Las is traditionally considered one of the three most prominent European 16th-century composers, along with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Tomás Luis de Victoria. composers of the second half. His music influenced the Venetians Andrea Gabrieli (who visited Munich around 1560) and Giovanni Gabrieli.
