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Gdańsk Tablature
The Gdańsk Tablature (, ) is the common name used to refer to the collection of 42 keyboard pieces contained within a manuscript in the State Archive in Gdańsk dating back to 1591. The music is frequently presumed to be the work of Cajus Schmiedtlein. Some of the compositions in the manuscript are based on vocal works by Pierre Regnault Sandrin, Orlando di Lasso, Baldassare Donato, Jacob Clemens non Papa, Johann Walter, Claudin de Sermisy, Thomas Crecquillon, Domenico Ferrabosco, Jean de Latre, Jacquet de Berchem, Jakob Meiland, Alexander Utendal, Giaches de Wert and Germano Pallavicino. The Manuscript The State Archive in Gdańsk holds a miscellany of documents under catalogue reference “Ms. 300 R/Vv, 123”. The codex, consisting of 183 folia, is bound in parchment with the initials “P W S P” and the number “1 5 9 1” on the front cover. It is believed that the initials refer to the owner or scribe of the manuscript, although attempts to identify these have proved elus ...
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Gdańsk
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River and is situated at the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay, close to the city of Gdynia and the resort town of Sopot; these form a metropolitan area called the Tricity, Poland, Tricity (''Trójmiasto''), with a population of approximately 1.5 million. The city has a complex history, having had periods of Polish, German and self rule. An important shipbuilding and trade port since the Middle Ages, between 1361 and 1500 it was a member of the Hanseatic League, which influenced its economic, demographic and #Architecture, urban landscape. It also served as Poland's principal seaport and was its largest city since the 15th century until the early 18th century when Warsaw surpassed it. With the Partition ...
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Jakob Meiland
Jakob Meiland (Senftenberg, 1542 – Hechingen, 31 December 1577) was a German composer. His ''St. Matthew Passion'' follows the model of Johann Walter Johann Walter, also known as ''Johann Walther'' or ''Johannes Walter'' (original name: ''Johann Blankenmüller'') (1496 – 25 March 1570), was a Lutheran composer and poet during the Reformation period. Life Walter was born in Kahla, in present- ...'s first Lutheran passion ''historia'' (c. 1530) but has more elaborate choral numbers.Howard E. Smither ''History of the Oratorio: Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque ...'' 2012 p.5 "This Passion by Walter was a model for numerous other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century works, including an anonymous St. Matthew Passion (attributed to Walter) in a manuscript of 1573 and the St. Matthew Passions by Jakob Meiland (1570), Samuel Besler (1611), and Melchior Vulpius (1613)" Works * St Matthew Passion * Sacrae aliquot cantiones latinae et germanicae, quinqué et quatuor vocum Frankfurt 15 ...
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1591 Books
Events January–March * January 27 – Scottish schoolmaster John Fian becomes the first person to be executed after the North Berwick witch trials, following his conviction for the crime of witchcraft. Fian is taken to the Castlehill outside of Edinburgh and strangled after which his body is burned. Agnes Sampson is garroted the next day at Castlehill and then burned. * February 7 – Pope Gregory XIV, who had succeeded Pope Urban VII in December, appoints Cardinal Marco Antonio Colonna and six other cardinals to a commission to revise the Sixtine Vulgate Latin translation of the Bible, published in 1590 under the editorship of Pope Sixtus V, to which the College of Cardinals has taken exception. The revision of the revision, dubbed the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate, will be completed in 1592 and be the official version used by the Catholic Church until 1979. * February 25 – Poet Edmund Spenser is granted an annual pension of 50 pounds sterling by ...
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Renaissance Music
Renaissance music is traditionally understood to cover European music of the 15th and 16th centuries, later than the Renaissance era as it is understood in other disciplines. Rather than starting from the early 14th-century ''ars nova'', the music of the Trecento, Trecento music was treated by musicology as a coda to medieval music and the new era dated from the rise of triad (music), triadic harmony and the spread of the ''contenance angloise'' style from the British Isles to the Burgundian School. A convenient watershed for its end is the adoption of basso continuo at the beginning of the Baroque music, Baroque period. The period may be roughly subdivided, with an early period corresponding to the career of Guillaume Du Fay (–1474) and the cultivation of cantilena style, a middle dominated by Franco-Flemish School and the four-part textures favored by Johannes Ockeghem (1410s or '20s–1497) and Josquin des Prez (late 1450s–1521), and culminating during the Counter-Reformat ...
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Compositions For Organ
Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature *Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography *Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include visuals and digital space *Composition (visual arts), the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work * ''Composition'' (Peeters), a 1921 painting by Jozef Peeters *Composition studies, the professional field of writing instruction * ''Compositions'' (album), an album by Anita Baker *Digital compositing, the practice of digitally piecing together a still image or video *Musical composition, an original piece of music, or the process of creating a new piece Computer science *Compose key, a key on a computer keyboard *Compositing window manager a component of a computer's graphical user interface that draws windows and/or their borders *Function composition (computer science), an act or mechanism to combine simple functi ...
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Wolfgang Baumgratz
Wolfgang Baumgratz (born 10 October 1948 in Meersburg) is a German organist and academic teacher. Life Wolfgang Baumgratz studied organ and sacred music at the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik in Heidelberg and at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg im Breisgau (organ class of Ludwig Doerr). He graduated with a Master's degree in sacred music (1976) and was music director at the Johanneskirche in Merzhausen from 1971 until 1976. Between 1976 and 1978, he studied organ with Albert de Klerk at the Conservatorium in Amsterdam, Netherlands, as recipient of a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), and graduated with a soloist diploma in organ performance in 1978. In 1979, Baumgratz became organist at Bremen Cathedral, where he succeeded Zsigmond Szathmáry. The following year, he became lecturer of organ at the Hochschule für Künste (HfK) Bremen, and in 1984 was appointed professor of organ performance. In 1989, he became department chair of the H ...
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Konrad Küster
Konrad Küster (born 11 March 1959) is a German musicologist. Born in Stuttgart, Küster studied musicology, Medieval and Modern History and Comparative Regional Studies at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1989 with a thesis on the design of the first movements in Mozart's concerts (Kassel 1991). In 1993 he habilitated in Freiburg with the thesis ''Opus primum in Venice - tradition of the vocal movement, 1590-1650''. Since 1995 he has been professor of musicology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg. From 1995 to 1997 he was dean, and from 2002 to 2006 dean of studies. From 2003 to 2018 he was a member of the board of the International Heinrich Schütz Society. Küster's spectrum of research covers a wide range from the music of the Middle Ages to the Protestant musical culture of the 16th to 19th centuries (especially Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach) and on to First Viennese School. He became known as the editor of the ''B ...
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Germano Pallavicino
Germano is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Mononym *Germano (footballer, born 1911), Germano Boettcher Sobrinho (1911–1977), Brazilian goalkeeper *Germano (footballer, born 1942), José Germano de Sales (1942–1997), Brazilian left winger *Germano (footballer, born 1981), Germano Borovicz Cardozo Schweger, Brazilian defensive midfielder Given name *Germano Almeida (born 1945), Cape Verdean author and lawyer *Germano Celant (born 1940), Italian art historian, critic and curator *Germano de Figueiredo (1932–2004), Brazilian footballer * Germano Grachane (born 1942), Mozambican clergyman * Germano Mosconi (1932–2012), Italian sportswriter, news presenter and television personality *Germano Rigotto (born 1949), Brazilian politician *Germano Rocha, Portuguese-born Canadian fado singer and restaurant owner *Germano Vailati (born 1980), Swiss footballer Surname *Carlos Germano (born 1970), Brazilian footballer *David Germano, American Tibetol ...
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Giaches De Wert
Giaches de Wert (also Jacques/Jaches de Wert, Giaches de Vuert; 1535 – 6 May 1596) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance, active in Italy. Intimately connected with the progressive musical center of Ferrara, he was one of the leaders in developing the style of the late Renaissance madrigal. He was one of the most influential of late sixteenth-century madrigal composers, particularly on Claudio Monteverdi, and his later music was formative on the development of music of the early Baroque era. Life Little is known about his early life, except that he was from Flanders, from either the vicinity of Ghent or Weert, near Antwerp. As a boy he went to Avellino in southern Italy, near Naples, where he became a choir boy in the chapel of Maria di Cardona, Marchesa of Padulla. Maria was the wife of Francesco d'Este, Marchese di Massalombarda, a captain under Charles V; Francesco was a son of the notorious Lucrezia Borgia, and her husband Alfonso I d'Este. Francesco was o ...
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Alexander Utendal
Alexander Utendal (1543/45 – 7 May 1581) was a Flemish composer. Life Utendal was a native of Ghent, nowadays a Belgian city, but at the time part of Flanders and the Netherlands which were part of the Holy Roman Empire. Like many Flemish musicians and composers of his time, he served the Imperial family, the Habsburgs. He began already at a young age as a choirboy at the court of Mary of Hungary, sister of emperors Charles V and Ferdinand I of the Holy Roman Empire. She was given the position of Vogt (regent) of the Netherlands. In 1564, Utendal became alto of the court chapel of Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol, another member of the royal Habsburg family. After Ferdinand was made Archduke of Further Austria in 1564 after his father's death, he moved his court from Prague (he was the governor of Bohemia) to Innsbruck. Utendal followed his master to the Innsbruck court chapel to gain the position of vice chapel master in 1572 (as successor of Jacob Regnart); he was als ...
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Jacquet De Berchem
Jacquet de Berchem (also known as Giachet(to) Berchem or Jakob van Berchem; c. 1505 – before 2 March 1567) was a Franco-Flemish school, Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance music, Renaissance, active in Italy. He was famous in mid-16th-century Italy for his madrigal (music), madrigals, approximately 200 of which were printed in Venice, some in multiple printings due to their considerable popularity. As evidence of his widespread fame, he is listed by Rabelais in ''Gargantua and Pantagruel'' as one of the most famous musicians of the time, and the printed music for one of his madrigals appears in a painting by Caravaggio (The Lute Player (Caravaggio), ''The Lute Player''). Life Berchem was born around 1505 in Berchem (now part of Antwerp), in the southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium).Nugent, Grove online No archival records have yet been found covering his early life; the first mention of him dates from 1539, by which time he had come to Venice, as did so many of his ...
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