In many ways Bavaria’s most prominent musician in the later sixteenth century was not a German but the cosmopolitan Orlandus Lassus – Flemish by birth, Italian by training, and Bavarian by choice, holding the positions of singer and then Kapellmeister at the Bavarian court in Munich for nearly forty years until his death in 1594. But even during this long period at Munich he continued to travel frequently, and did much to give German music an international flavour.