KERLE, JACOB
de. — Musician, b. at Ypres ca. 1530, d. at Prague on 7 January 1591. In 1555 he was organist at Orvieto, from where he went as chapel master, in the retinue of Cardinal Ottone di Truchsesa, to Augsburg, Rome, and Dillingen. He is found again in Rome, and then at Ypres. In 1557 he was a canon of Cambrai Cathedral; in 1582, chapel master at the court of Rudolf II of Prague.
A highly renowned composer, he wrote Juni (Rome 1558), Salmi da Vespro (Venice 1561), Magnificat (there 1561), 6 Messe a 4 e 5 voci (there 1562), Madrigali (Venice 1570), and other music of distinguished contrapuntal and polyphonic workmanship.
BIBL.: O. Ursprung, I. de K., Munich 1913.
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