Jacobus Gallus was a late-Renaissance composer of presumed Slovene ethnicity. Born in Carniola, which at the time was one of the Habsburg lands in the Holy Roman Empire, he lived and worked in Moravia and Bohemia during the last decade of his life.
Jacobus Gallus, a woodcut portrait from 1590
Tenor voice part of Gallus' Ecce quomodo moritur iustus, published in his Opus Musicum II (1587).
Gallus Embankment in Ljubljana
Ribnica is a town in the Municipality of Ribnica in southern Slovenia. It is the seat of the municipality. It is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola and is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.
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