!!!Reformation !!Jacobus Gallus: ''O magnum mysterium'' %%columns-fill [{Image src='Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Jacobus_Gallus_O_magnum_mysterium/060105a.jpg' height='190' alt='Jacobus Gallus' caption='Jacobus Gallus (1550 Krain - 1591 Prag\\' width='127'}] ---- [{Image src='Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Jacobus_Gallus_O_magnum_mysterium/060105b.jpg' height='190' alt='Melk' caption='Engraving of Melk' width='285'}] ---- [{Image src='Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Jacobus_Gallus_O_magnum_mysterium/060105c.jpg' height='190' alt='Olmuetz' caption='Olmuetz' width='295'}] ---- [{Image src='Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Jacobus_Gallus_O_magnum_mysterium/060105d.jpg' height='190' alt='Prag' caption='Prag' width='285'}] %% Almost nothing is known about the younger years and musical training of Jacobus Gallus (1550 Krain(Slovenia) - 1591 Prague/Bohemia. After leaving his homeland, Gallus went to Melk Abbey/Lower Austria, and then became a member of the court chapel in Vienna. Later he also worked in Olmuetz/Moravia und Prague (Fig. d). He began to compose works for his six-part ''Opus musicum'', a cycle of motets that would eventually cover the liturgical needs of the entire ecclesiastical year in 1577. The motet ''O magnum mysterium'' comes from the first volume (printed in 1586) which covers the period from the first sunday of Advent to the Septuagesima. This motet for 8 voices gives evidence of Venetian influence in its use of the ''coro spezzato'' technique (= polychorality). (E. Stadler)\\ \\ !Sound Clip [{Audio src='Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Jacobus_Gallus_O_magnum_mysterium/060105am.mp3' caption='Jacobus Gallus: O magnum mysterium\\© Ars Produktion Schumacher, Ratingen (D), CD-Nr. FCD 368 341.'}] [{Metadata Suchbegriff='' Kontrolle='Nein'}] %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Jacobus_Gallus_O_magnum_mysterium|class='wikipage austrian'] %%