Roland de Lassus is one of those composers who were born on the borders of northern France and Flanders, as a teenager went to Italy to join the workforce of a princely court music or important church. Serving Ferrante Gonzaga (a cadet of the ducal family of Mantua), Lassus and runs the Italian peninsula before stopping in Rome, where he became choirmaster of St. John the Lateran. Then, after a brief return to Antwerp, that he finally settled in Munich from 1556. Become one of the leading musicians of the Bavarian court, his career - interrupted some stay in Italy - will be devoted mainly to provide the music necessary for the brilliant civil and religious life of this institution.
As a composer, Lassus is distinguished first by its prolixity: his works are numerous and deal with all vocal genres of the sixteenth century, the most serious entertaining. Lassus was also considered during his lifetime as a master in the combination process of scholarly writing (including imitative counterpoint) with the resources of the music chapel (the figures of musica poetica). Furthermore it illustrates this aspect of the musical personality of Lassus The concert program will discover one of his Masses written by the principle of parody (a technique of reusing existing music - here, a song - in the composition of a mass).
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