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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Orlando de Lassus |
 | | The imperial document conferring the honour is remarkable, not only as showing the esteem in which the master was held by rulers and nations, but particularly as evidence of the lofty conception on the part of this monarch of the function of art in the social economy. |
 | | Lassus was the heir to the centuries of preparation and development of the Netherland school, and was its greatest and also its last representative. |
 | | While with many of his contemporaries, even the most noted, such as Dufay, Okeghem, Obrecht, and Josquin des Prés, contrapuntal skill is often an end in itself, Lassus, being consummate master of every form of the art and possessing a powerful imagination, always aims at a lofty and truthful interpretation of the text before him. |
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