George de La Hèle

[1] In the 1570s La Hèle stayed in the Low Countries, working successively as choirmaster at the cathedrals in Mechelen and Tournai, both centers of music-making.

These were also productive years: he wrote the eight masses which Antwerp printer Christopher Plantin published in 1578 as Octo missae, La Hèle's most famous (and principal surviving) publication.

[1] La Hèle's masses, his most considerable surviving compositions, all use the parody technique, and each announce the polyphonic model on which they are based in the table of contents of the book.

Most of La Hèle's other music existed in manuscript copies kept in the library of the Palacio Real, but when the entire complex was destroyed by fire on Christmas Eve, 1734, it was all lost.

[4] Missa Praeter rerum seriem, 1578: Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei in 2017 album Vecchi Requiem Rubens's funeral and the Antwerp Baroque by Graindelavoix[5] under the direction of Björn Schmelzer.