Jacobus Gallus
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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
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
Stična Abbey
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Stična Abbey is the oldest monastery in Slovenia. It is the only Cistercian monastery in the country still operating. Its mother house was Rein Abbey in Austria.
Jacobus Gallus
…name, to which he often added the adjective Carniolus, thus giving credit to his homeland Carniola. Gallus most likely was educated at the Cistercian Stična Abbey in Carniola. He left Carniola sometime between 1564 and 1566, traveling first to Austria, and later to Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. For some time he…
Stična Abbey
Valvasor's depiction of Stična from 1679
V. Dienersperg, abbot of Stična
Inner yard