A paper on Jacob Handl can hardly be called superfluous. There is very little about him or about his works in the usual English books of reference. The English edition (1886) of Emil Naumann's “History of Music” gives perhaps the fullest account (vol. iii., p. 614). Naumann believes that Handl may have been a pupil of Andrea Gabrieli at Venice, basing this opinion on the proximity of Carniola (Handl's birthplace) to Venice, and on certain features of his compositions which have a relation to the works of other Venetians, such as Willaert and Leoni.