Giovanni Battista Pinello di Ghirardi

The earliest known record of Pinello dates to 1569 when he was serving as a musician in Landshut in the chapel of William V, Duke of Bavaria.

[1] By 1576 (possibly earlier) Pinello had left his post at the Vicenza Cathedral and was working as a singer at the Court Church in Innsbruck in the service of the House of Habsburg.

By 1580 (possibly earlier) he had left that post and was in Prague where he was a singer in the court of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.

He was appointed Kapellmeister of the Staatskapelle Dresden in November 1580; succeeding Antonio Scandello after the post was turned down by first Orlando di Lasso and then Jacob Regnart.

Likewise, the choir was equally mutinous, possibly in loyalty to Forster due to the unpopularity of appointing a foreigner to the post of Kapellmeister.