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.
Cantus/Altus
for: 2 recorders (AT)
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1917
for: Violin, cello
Sheet music
Item no.: 1383377
piae memoriae, ..., quatuor vocibus chromatico more
München 1600
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6307
aus "Le premier livre de Chansons", Antwerpen 1564
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1131
Psalm 50,3
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755697
aus "Le premier livre de Chansons", Antwerpen 1564
for: Mixed choir (SSAB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1130
aus "Missa on me l' a dit"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 756479
Psalm 129,1-2
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 725787
Altus / Tenor
for: 2 trombones [cellos]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1657
for: Choral
Item no.: 1374011
aus: Novem Lectiones, et aliae aliquot piae cantiones Orlandi Laßi, 4 vocum, Lectio 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5268
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1382555
for: Choral
Item no.: 1376507
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377826
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375990
Selected Villanellas and Morescas
for: 4 Blockflöten (SATB) oder andere Melodie-Instrumente
Score, Parts
Item no.: 727735
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2952
for: Choral
Item no.: 1377827
aus: Sacrae Cantiones, Liber primus
Venedig, 1565
(tiefe Ausgabe)
for: Mixed choir (SATTB); 5 instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 6014
"Lanzknecht"-Ständchen
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747042
aus "Libro de villanelle, moresche ed altre canzoni" (1581)
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); instruments ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1466
aus "Le premier livre de Chansons", Antwerpen 1564
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1129
aus: "Newe Teütsche Liedlein mit Fünff Stimmen / welche gantz lieblich zu singen / vnd auff allerley Instrumenten zu gebrauchen."
München, 1567
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3530
Lanzknecht-Ständchen
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746980
Offertorim: 3. Sonntag nach Erscheinung, Gründonnerstag, Kreuzauffindung
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755694
Cantus/Altus
for: Oboe, bassoon
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1918
Cantus/Altus
for: Violin, viola
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1919
aus: Cantiones aliquot 5 vocum
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1338522
for: Choral
Item no.: 1378107
Cantus/Altus
for: Trumpet (B-flat), trombone
Ensemble score (pdf download)
Item no.: 1920
aus "Prophetiae Sybillarum"
München, 1600
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3379
aus: Etliche außerlesene kurtze gute geistliche und weltliche Liedlein
München, 1582
tiefe Ausgabe (Original)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6031
Missale Romanum (Ordinarium) (GL 104-107)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 755717
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1340196
for: Choral
Item no.: 1375006
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
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
De profundis clamavi
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1337874
O la, o che ben eccho / Holla! Welch gutes Echo, Matona mia cara / Herzallerliebstes Mädel
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 794037
aus: Sacrae Cantiones, Liber primus
Venedig, 1565
(hohe Ausgabe)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); 5 instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 6015
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339625
Echochor
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 746841
Offertorium der 3. Weihnachtsmesse
Psalm 88,12
for: 2 mixed choirs (SSAB, SATB); 3 cornetts, 5 trombones (colla parte) ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5429
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760508
Wir beten dich an, Christe (Pasion)
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730047
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 753988
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730973