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Article: Jacobus Gallus. Selectiores quaedam missae.
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- March 1, 1996
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On Septuagesima Sunday 1589, the thirty-nine-year-old Slovenian-Austrian composer Jacob Gallus (also known as Jacob Handl) published his first secular collection of vocal music which he called Moralia. In his preface to the edition, Gallus not only discussed the contents of the collection and why he composed it, but also alluded to the enormous amount of sacred music he had composed earlier:
No longer do people singly make their singular demands upon me, but everyone is asking nearly everything of me alone.... A church choir has kept me busy for the last three years. I have supplied it with several works, which are sung and heard almost every day, and I would add some ...