Volume 25, Number 7 · May 4, 1978
Light on Lasso
By Robert Craft
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Orlando di Lasso: Sämliche Werke, Neue Reihe
edited by Wolfgang Boetticher
Bärenreiter, Kassel und Basel, (Volume 1, 1956, 12 volumes to date) pp.
Orlando di Lasso Volume I: Sein Leben Volume II: Briefe
by Horst Leuchtmann
Breitkopf und Härtel (Wiesbaden), 478 pp., 100 DM
Music of Orlando di Lasso: I: Missa Bell Amfitrit Altera; Penitential Psalm VII, II: Four Motets; Penitential Psalm V
Choir of the Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, conducted by Simon Preston
Argo ZRG-735 and Argo ZRG-795
Of the great composers in the second half of the sixteenth century, Orlando di Lasso had the widest range and the most complex personality, so far as the latter is possible to determine about anyone who lived before the advent of the fully documented modern biography. Alfred Einstein[1] was one of the first scholars to establish a connection between the life and the work. Comparing Lasso's setting of a Petrarch sonnet with that of another composer,[2] Einstein deduced that since Lasso's version contains only two-thirds as many measures, he must have been 'impatient.'
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