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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.
Stična Abbey
Stična Abbey
Valvasor's depiction of Stična from 1679
Valvasor's depiction of Stična from 1679
V. Dienersperg, abbot of Stična
V. Dienersperg, abbot of Stična
Inner yard
Inner yard
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
Stična Abbey
…religious, cultural, and economic centre. In addition to an ordinary school, the monastery also operated a music school, where the Renaissance composer Jacobus Gallus is believed to have received his earliest musical education. The successful life of the monastery was hampered by Ottoman raids, and was burned and…
Jacobus Gallus, a woodcut portrait from 1590
Jacobus Gallus, a woodcut portrait from 1590
Tenor voice part of Gallus' Ecce quomodo moritur iustus, published in his Opus Musicum II (1587).
Tenor voice part of Gallus' Ecce quomodo moritur iustus, published in his Opus Musicum II (1587).
Gallus Embankment in Ljubljana
Gallus Embankment in Ljubljana