 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 Viennese court chapel in 1574, and was choirmaster ("Kapellmeister") to the bishop of Olomouc between 1579 (or 1580) and 1585.