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Name
  
Johannes Cleve

Role
  
Composer

Died
  
1582


Johannes de Cleve (c. 1529 – 14 July 1582) was a composer active at the court of Ferdinand I and Charles II.

He was presumably born in the Duchy of Cleves, and recruited into the court as a choirboy in the same way as Lassus and many others. He was originally a singer in Ferdinand's chapel in Vienna, but when Charles II organized a new chapel in Graz in 1564, he appointed de Cleve as the first Kapellmeister in Graz.

Works

  • Laudatory and occasional Latin motets for the Habsburg court.
  • 'Missa rex Babylonis venit ad lacum.'
  • References

    Johannes de Cleve Wikipedia