LASSUS, Orlando di

The merits of this composer were until comparatively recent times less respectfully treated than modern historians think their due. Burney and Baini especially among the older writers are by no means so lavish in their praise as many more recent writers believe they should have been. Be his merits what they may, it is certain that Lassus exercised a powerful influence over the music of his period, and over that of the succeeding school, by renouncing in a great measure the...