Editing Jacobus Gallus (section)

== Life ==
Gallus's name has been Slovenianized as ''Jakob Petelin''<ref>Reese, p. 736</ref> (''petelin'' means 'rooster'; ''Handl'' and ''gallus'' mean the same in German and Latin, respectively).<ref>Skei/Pokorn:  Grove online</ref> However, Gallus never used the name ''Petelin''.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Jacobus Gallus |encyclopedia=Enciklopedija Slovenije |date=1989 |last=Cvetko |first=Dragotin |publisher=Mladinska knjiga |volume=3 |location=Ljubljana |page=177  |quote=Slov. različice ''Petelin'' ni G. nikoli uporabil.}}</ref> He was probably born in Reifnitz (now [[Ribnica, Ribnica|Ribnica]], southern [[Slovenia]]), although Slovene folk tradition also claims his birthplace to be at [[Šentviška Gora]] in the [[Slovenian Littoral]].<ref>Savnik, Roman, ed. 1968. ''Krajevni leksikon Slovenije'', vol. 1. Ljubljana: Državna založba Slovenije. p. 424.</ref> He used the [[Latin]] form of his name, to which he often added the adjective ''Carniolus'', thus giving credit to his homeland [[Carniola]].
[[File:HARMONIARVM MORALIUM.gif|thumb|250px|''Harmoniae morales'' from printer [[Jiří Nigrin]], 1589]]
Gallus most likely was educated at the Cistercian [[Stična Abbey]] in Carniola. He left Carniola sometime between 1564 and 1566, traveling first to Austria, and later to [[Bohemia]], [[Moravia]] and [[Silesia]]. For some time he lived at the [[Benedictine]] [[Melk Abbey]] in Lower Austria. He was a member of the [[Vienna|Viennese]] court chapel in 1574, and was choirmaster (''Kapellmeister'') to the [[bishop of Olomouc]] between 1579 (or 1580) and 1585. From 1585 to his death he worked in [[Prague]] as [[organist]] to the [[Church of St. John on the Balustrade]] ({{langx|cs|Sv. Jan na Zábradlí}}). Gallus died on 18 July 1591 in Prague.<ref name="Skei/Pokorn, Grove online"/>