A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Hándl, Jacob

HÁNDL, Jacob, also Händl and Hähnel, an old German master of the first class (1550–1591), whose name, after the punning fashion of those days, was latinised into Gallus, under which head he is noticed in this work. Handel has done him the favour to transfer a very characteristic and evidently favourite passage which winds up both portions of his motet 'Ecce quomodo moritur Justus,' to the same position in his 'Funeral Anthem' ('But their name').

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