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| Orlande de Lassus
(1532 - 1594)
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| 1532 |
Born at Mons in Hainaut |
| 1540 |
Admitted, at the age of 8, to the choir of the church of St. Nicholas in Mons |
| 1553 |
Appointed maestro di cappella of St. John Lateran |
| 1556 |
Joins the court chapel of Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria in Munich as a singer
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| 1558 |
Marries Regina Wächinger |
| 1570 |
Emperor Maximilian raised Lassus and his descendants to the nobility on 7 December |
| 1574 |
Named a Knight of the Golden Spur by Pope Gregory XIII |
| 1594 |
Dies at Munich on 14 June |
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Charles IX of France bestows the cross of the Order of Malta |
| ~1544 |
Serves Ferrante Gonzaga of Mantua |
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