Hannibal, Scene from 576 Huguenots, billboard 484 Liszt's library and music room 818 Liszt's organ room 819 LISZT PLAYING TO HIS FRIENDS 817 Memorial Chapel, Grétry 627 Mendelssohn's hand 436 Mozart's ear 295 Mozart's first composition 270 Mozart's piano and spinet 276 Mozart, room where he was born 275 OLD MARKET SQUARE, Dresden 397 OPERA HOUSE, Paris 749 Palazzo Vendramin 543 PANTHÉON MUSICAL 755 PANTHÉON OF GERMAN MUSICIANS 567 Pergolese medal by Mercandetti 45 Pergolese commemorative medal 48 Rossini's clay pipe 60 SALZBURG 271 SCHUBERT AND HIS FRIENDS 357 SPONTINI'S PIANO 90 Strauss (junior) leading orchestra 496 St. Thomas's School 177 SYNTAGMA MUSICUM, Title-page of 572 Triumph of Rameau 622 VIENNA OPERA HOUSE 606 WAGNER AND FRIENDS AT BAYREUTH 557 Wagner's studio 539 WEBER LEADING OPERA 405 Weber's coat-of-arms 408 [Illustration: ORLANDO LASSO _Reproduction of an engraving by C. Debluis, after an old German print in the "Cabinet des estampes" in Paris. It bears the inscription, "Orlandus Lassus, musicus excellens."_] [Illustration: LASSO] [Illustration] ORLANDO DI LASSO Roland Delattre is generally known by the Italian form of his name, Orlando di Lasso. He was the last great light of the famous school of Netherlands masters who were the real founders of modern musical art. The history of Lasso's career is tolerably well known to us, owing to the existence of Vinchant's "Annals of Hainault" and a sketch by Van Quickelberg published in 1565 in a biographical dictionary called "Heroum Prosopographia." Although the former author was born in 1580, and Lasso died in 1594 or 1595, he places the date of the composer's birth ten years earlier than Van Quickelberg. Fétis gives plausible reasons for accepting Vinchant's date, yet it is probable that Van Quickelberg got his data directly from the composer, of whom he was an intimate friend.