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Article: Orlando di Lasso: Prachthandschriften und Quellenuberlieferung; aus den Bestanden der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek Munchen.

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With the help of historical perspective one could argue that the Netherlander Orlando di Lasso, and not Richard Strauss, was Bavaria's most famous composer. For thirty-eight years - under Dukes Albrecht V and Wilhelm V, from 1556 to his death in 1594 - Lasso served as singer, chorusmaster, and composer to the Wittelsbach Court at Munich. Working from there, he became the sixteenth century's most famous composer, even though the then relatively provincial Munich did not afford the cultural prestige it came to enjoy by Strauss's time.

During the summer of 1994, Munich organized a series of lectures and concerts honoring Lasso in observance of the quadricentennial of ...

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