Ivo de Vento

Ivo de Vento (c. 1544, in Antwerp – 3 September 1575, in Munich) was a Franco-Flemish composer, organist and Kapellmeister of the High Renaissance. Life From numerous receipts sent to his father in Antwerp it is known that Ivo de Vento was present at the ducal court of Albert V in Munich around September 1556 or a little later, one of a number of boy singers recruited from the Spanish Netherlands, possibly chosen by Orlando di Lasso. He was employed under Hofkapellmeister Ludwig Daser until September 1559, when his voice broke and he was given a stipend to study in Venice. Presumably his teachers would have included Claudio Merulo, the organist at San Marco, and Annibale Padovano. Italian influence is evident in a 6-part Battaglia printed in a Venetian anthology of 1564. In 1563 he returned to Munich as organist, a post shared with two Italian colleagues in the newly expanded Hofkapelle now led by Orlando di Lasso. Vento was fostered by the famous composer, as shown by inclusion of his work in a collection of 6-part masses (1564/65) as well as the 1569 Madrigals and its 1575 sequel. In summer of 1568 the crown prince Wilhelm V, having married Renata of Lorraine, moved part of the c