Jacobus Florius
Jacobus Florius
Genres: franco-flemish, 16th century
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About Jacobus Florius
Jacobus Florius (* around 1552 possibly in Maastricht ; † after 1599) was a Franco-Flemish composer , singer and conductor of the Renaissance . Jacobus Florius was a son of Franciscus Florius . No information has survived about his early years and training period. After his father worked at the ducal Bavarian court in Munich during the years in question , the music researcher EF Schmid (1962) assumed that Jacobus received his training as a choir boy there; But there is no evidence for this. In 1571 Jacobus Florius applied for the position of bass singer at the ducal court in Stuttgart . There is evidence that he was in Aquileia in 1572 and in Venice the following yearstopped. Somewhat older information speaks of the fact that he worked as a bass singer with the Brotherhood of Mary in 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands from 1572 to 1574 . His name was entered as a singer in the lists of the Innsbruck court orchestra for 1573 and 1574. In 1574 he dedicated a mass he composed to Emperor Maximilian II , probably as an application for a position in Vienna , but received only 20 guilders in return. In 1575 the composer apparently wanted to retire to Flanders , which is why Orlando di Lasso asked Wilhelm V.(then hereditary prince) asked for a letter of recommendation for Jacobus Florius. His actual stay after that is not known, but it is certain that he returned to Innsbruck for a short time in 1581 and applied again for a position at the Stuttgart court, but without success. In 1581 Jacobus got a job as a singer and vice-kapellmeister at the court of Eitel Friedrich IV in Hechingen , which he kept until 1583. Together with two other singers, he was loaned to Innsbruck this year because "they didn't have the best singers there". In the autumn of 1583 the composer apparently left the service in Hechingen because the new head of the choir there, Leonhard Lechner , had to find a replacement for the vice-kapellmeister. There is no information about where Jacobus Florius turned to in the following seven years and where he worked. It is not until 1590 that there is evidence of his work as Kapellmeister in the service of the Austrian archdukeMatthew . There he tried in 1594 to change as a bass singer in Emperor Rudolf II 's choir and also dedicated a mass to him, but was apparently unsuccessful. In 1596 he was given the position of court conductor in Salzburg with Prince Bishop Wolf Dietrich von Raithenau (1587–1612). To this he dedicated his "Cantiones sacrae quinque vocum" (published in Munich in 1599). However, the bishop rejected the dedication and dismissed Jacobus Florius from grace. After that, his trail is lost; some music historians assume that he returned to the Netherlands.
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