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The Music in Prague during the Reign of Rudolf II

Philippe de Monte: Missa super Confitebor tibi Domine
Alessandro Orologio, Orlando di Lasso, Liberale Zanchi, Carl Luython, Salomone Rossi und Nikolaus Zangius

Towards the end of the 16th century, Prague became the residential city of the Imperial Court. A great lover of the arts, Rudolf II invited to Prague the best artists of the time and thus transformed the provincial city into one of the cultural centres of renaissance Europe, providing it with lustre omparable to the royal courts in France and Spain.