Jacobus Handl's lyrics & chords

Jacobus Gallus Carniolus (a.k.a. Jacob(us) Handl, Jacob(us) Händl, Jacob(us) Gallus; Slovene: Jakob Petelin Kranjski) (3 July 1550 – 18 July 1591) was a late-Renaissance composer of Slovene[1] ethnicity. Born in Carniola, which at the time was one of the Habsburg lands in the Holy Roman Empire, he lived and worked in Moravia and Bohemia during the last decade of his life. Gallus may have been named Jakob Petelin at birth.[2] Petelin means "rooster"; handl and gallus mean the same in German and Latin, respectively.[3] He was probably born in...read more