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against the organ builder Rudner; he himself emerges as an ingenious instrument builder with a chromatic harpsichord of four octaves circumference, which, according to Michael Praetorius' description, is not only all semitones, but also a "semitonium" between e and f, and therefore "billich ein instrument perfektum, si non perfectissimum" is to be called. At the same time as these great masters of Dutch sound art, he did not work in Prague as a member of the Hofkapelle, but as a cantor of the Church of St. John on the Furt, Jakob Handl, who was born in Reinfritz in 1550, who called himself Gallus. In contrast to the more intimate Liedmeisterium of the Madrigalists, he represents the multi-heard so-called Venetian style. Of his works in Prague (who had lived in the Bohemian capital since 1585) the four-part motette "Ecco quomodo moritur justus" has become known.* In his work, the transition to binding chromatics, which took place around 1600 with such consequence, is strange and bold. Stylistically, this musician is close to one of the greatest Bavarian masters of his time: the Nuremberg Hans Leo Hassler. From Erzgebirgian tribe, Hässler grew up in Venice in the teaching of the Gabrieli brothers to one the most powerful rulers of the multi-heard orchestral and choral style. Without becoming a member of the Prague Hofkapelle himself, he was awarded the nobility as a leading composer of his time by Emperor Rudolf in 1595; since 1602 he has been led as "servants on two horses". In 1604 he received the honorable title "of Rosenec". His brother Jakob Hassler, also a brilliant musician, joined the Hofkaptelle in 1602 as organist. How high Hans Leo Haßler stood in Rudolf's favor is testified by an imperial letter of 15 February 1605 to the Reichspfennigmeister Welser: "We submit to you here in genaden to negate that we on our chamber organist Hannsen Leo Hassler's the first future month Marty *) This motette will be performed in the choir concert on 17 May. 22 Ulm employed wedding to appear by an adelsspersohn as our imperial emissary, and to have granted a silver ubergutes drink harness from 40 to 45 guldun to venerate. However, after Häßler's death, it became apparent that the imperial court with the payment of the "in genaden" approved fees for the numerous works dedicated to the emperor and for the services performed occasionally as chamber organist was very late. The heirs had to come to court several times to collect the guilty 1931 guilders (the merchant after about twenty times in Mark), because Häßler had his fortune The Western Burgtrakt / Spanish Hall / From a lithograph by Sandmann