Johannes de Cleve (c. 1529 – 14 July 1582) was a composer active at the court of Ferdinand I and Charles II.
He was presumably born in the Duchy of Cleves, and recruited into the court as a choirboy in the same way as Lassus and many others.Nele Gabriëls, Johannes de Cleve (1529-1582) and His Laudatory MotetsNew Oxford history of music: Vol4 The Age of Humanism, 1540-1630 ed. Jack Allan Westrup - 1990 JOHANNES DE CLEVE "Of the same age as Vaet was Johannes de Cleve..." He was originally a singer in Ferdinand's chapel in Vienna, but when Charles II organized a new chapel in Graz in 1564, he appointed de Cleve as the first Kapellmeister in Graz.
Works Laudatory and occasional Latin motets for the Habsburg court. 'Missa rex Babylonis venit ad lacum.'
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