The Brattleboro Camerata presents “The Unknown Master: Music of Adrian Willaert” Sunday, April 13. The 4 p.m. concert spotlights the works of Willaert, one of the central figures in 16th-century music.
According to Camerata music director Jonathan Harvey, “He was the most powerful and influential musician in Venice, and his students included the biggest names of the next generation of Italian composers. The continuing reputation of centuries-old music is always dependent on a combination of financial and class circumstances, aesthetic qualities, later trends and fads, and pure chance – unfortunately, Willaert was just unlucky, and his music largely disappeared by …