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| | HOASM: The Cinquecento outside Venice and Rome |
 | | The excellent Spanish composer and theorist, Diego Ortiz, summoned by the Duke of Alba, served as maestro of the Viceroyal Chapel, 1555 to 1570. |
 | | Here, too, Paolo Isnardi, musician to the Duke and maestro di cappella at the Cathedral, composed Masses, motets, Lamentations, etc. Both Rore and, as his successor, Alfonso Della Viola, held the post of maestro di capella to Duke Ercole II of Ferrara. |
 | | At Mantua, Wert proved himself a worthy incumbent of the post of maestro di cappella of Santa Barbara by writing sacred music of high excellence. |
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