Orlando Lassus

(also Orlandus Lassus, Orlando di Lasso, Roland de Lassus, or Roland de Lattre). A Netherlandish composer of the late Renaissance. He is today considered to be the chief representative of the mature polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish school and one of the three most famous and influential musicians in Europe at the end of the 16th century (the other two being Palestrina and Victoria.)