Orlando di Lasso
Penitential Psalms — cosmopolitan polyphonist
The most versatile composer of the Renaissance, equally at home in sacred and secular music across four languages. Over 2,000 works spanning every vocal genre of the era.
Key works
- Penitential Psalms~1560— Seven psalms of extraordinary depth
- Prophetiae Sibyllarum~1560— Radical chromaticism