ABSTRACT
An extraordinary feature of Orlando di Lasso's career in print was the control he seems to have exercised, or at least tried to exercise, over it. If Lasso accompanied Giulio Cesare Brancaccio on the latter's brief and unsuccessful visit to the English court in the summer of 1554 he may have been with Brancaccio when the latter arrived at Calais in September of that year. In 1560 Lasso visited the Netherlands in an unsuccessful search for singers for Duke Albrecht's chapel. During the reign of Charles IX Lasso's reputation in France continued to grow as Le Roy and Ballard issued volumes of chansons and of motets and other sacred music. In 1580-1581 Lasso asked for and obtained from Emperor Rudolf II a personal privilege for the printing and reprinting of past, present, and future compositions within imperial territories. Horst Leuchtmann speculates that Lasso was particularly annoyed over recent German reprints—actually the work of the Gerlach firm—of his motets.
