Musica reservata
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Musica reservata is generally understood as a central style / way of performing music that emerged out of the late Renaissance and early Baroque period that is affiliated with being performed for priv
Orlando di Lasso: "Carmina Chromatico", Prophesiae Sybillarum
Orlando di Lasso
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Orlando di Lasso was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lasso stands with William Byrd, Giovanni Pierluigi da Pal
Musica reservata
…L'antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica (1555); Philippe de Monte, the prolific composer of madrigals who mainly worked in Vienna; and above all, Orlando di Lasso, the renowned and versatile composer working in Munich whose Prophetiae Sibyllarum, probably written in the 1560s, may represent the peak of development…
Orlande de Lassus, collection of Civico Museo Bibliografia Musicale, Bologna
Orlando di Lasso, aged 39. Private collection in Washington, D.C.
Lasso leading the Munich Court Chapel, detail of painting by Hans Mielich