de Vento, Ivo 1544 - 09/03/1575

Ivo de Vento (* c. 1544 in Antwerp; † September 3, 1575 in Munich) was a Franco-Flemish composer, organist and conductor of the late Renaissance. In the course of recruiting young singers from the Spanish Netherlands, he came in 1556 to the ducal Bavarian court of Albrecht V. in Munich. Ivo worked as a choirboy under the court conductor Ludwig Daser until September 1559. After his puberty vocal change he was not dismissed due to his talent. He received a scholarship to study in Italy (Venice until 1563) and returned to the Munich court as organist. Ivo de Vento died after a temporary appointment by Crown Prince Wilhelm zu Landshut as Court Kapellmeister and organist in Munich, barely 31 years old in September 1575.

The main focus of Ivo de Vento's work was on the motet (75 compositions) and the German Lied (109 compositions); in addition, he composed four masses, other sacred works and several other secular compositions. All things considered, Ivo de Vento has left behind a very diverse German-language song repertoire for the most diverse occasions, for the most diverse instrumentations and aesthetic tendencies. His songs have had a considerable influence on Leonhard Lechner and Hans Leo Hassler.