Artist Info: Blasius Amon

Blasius Amon (1566–1590) was an Austrian Franciscan friar and composer whose brief career unfolded in late sixteenth-century Salzburg. Working within the musical life of ecclesiastical institutions, he contributed to the flourishing of sacred polyphony in the Counter-Reformation period.

His surviving reputation rests on printed collections of Latin sacred music—motets and related liturgical works for multiple voices—circulated in the final decades of the 1500s. [read more...]