(1553-1606) Austrian Renaissance composer, a pupil of Lassus. The little we know shows him to have been one of the most important composers of choral music, whose later endeavours to blend the elements of madrigal and motet led to a uniform individual style towering over contemporary art-forms.
Biography from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program includes partial discography and information about the German lied. www.hoasm.org/IVH/Lechner.html
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