Adam of Fulda

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Adam von Fulda (* around 1445 in Fulda ; † 1505 in Wittenberg ) was a German composer and music theorist . He is considered one of the most important representatives of German music in the 15th century. His treatise De musica led to the humanistic German music teachings.

Life

Adam von Fulda was born around 1445. After studying in Basel, he went to Lower Bavaria. He completed his musical studies as a Benedictine monk in the Vornbach am Inn monastery , where he probably also wrote his De musica , which he completed on November 5, 1490. He left the monastery and became a court historian at the court of Frederick the Wise in Torgau and was head of the local choir since 1490 . At the head of which he stood from 1491 to 1501. In 1502 he was registered as a lecturer in Wittenberg when the university was founded. He then taught as a lecturer at the University of Wittenberg and joined a humanistic circle there.

Adam von Fulda died of the plague in 1505 . His successor in the electoral office was Konrad Rupff .

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treatise

Adam von Fulda emerged primarily as the author of the music theory treatise De musica , which consists of four parts in which the following topics are dealt with:

Adam von Fulda influenced Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz through his student Johann Walter with his treatise . The surviving manuscript of the treatise was written in Strasbourg and is dated November 5, 1490.

Compositions

The main part of the traditional compositions by Adam von Fulda are Latin choral works for boys' and men's choirs. His four-part mass is based on the model of Guillaume Dufay . The four-part musical setting on the text O vera lux et gloria originally belonged to the song Ach hülff mich är vnd senlich klag , which can be found in Joseph Klug's Wittenberger Gesangbuch (1535). There Adam von Fulda is also listed as a lyricist.

Even music historians are familiar with Adam von Fulda [...] as the author of a music treatise, hardly as a composer. Like his German contemporaries, he is also suspected of stylistic backwardness. But his music - especially the Missa Since I Have to Avoid You dearly - is extraordinarily beautiful in its free voice guidance.

Works

  • Theoretical writing: De musica. 1490
  • Theological-poetic writing: A very authentic Cristen-lich booklet from hailigē schrifften and Lerern by Adam von Fulda set in teutsch reymenn. With 8 woodcuts by Lucas Cranach . Wittenberg, 1512
  • Missa for four voices Since I've had to avoid you dearly
  • Motets Dies est laetitiae , Hymnus Sancti Johannes Baptistae Ut queant laxis and O vera lux et gloria
  • 10 offices in the Leipzig Codex Apel
  • 3 secular songs in: The song book of the Office of Aich. around 1510. Reprinted in 1930

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adam von Fulda in the "Rhönlexikon". ( Memento of August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ Hans Engel: Adam von Fulda. In: New German Biography. Volume 1, 1953, pp. 50-51. (deutsche-biographie.de)
  3. ^ Adam of Fulda. hoasm.org. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ Adam von Fulda - mass, motets, songs. ( Memento of June 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Partituren (Edition 14) . Retrieved February 20, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Adam of Fulda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1445
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda
DATE OF DEATH 1505
Place of death Wittenberg