Benedictus de Drusina
Benedictus de Drusina (* around 1520 / 25 ; † interlocutory 1578 and 1582 ) was a lutenist of the Renaissance .
Life
Benedictus came from Drusina near Elbing in Polish Prussia (probably Drusendorf on the Drausensee ). He lived for some time in Italy and France and got to know the local lute music. Benedict had been in Frankfurt (Oder) since the beginning of the 1550s , where he pursued musical and humanistic studies. In 1556 he had a collection of lute music printed there. He dedicated this to the Swedish King Gustav I.
In the summer of 1562 Benedict was in Güstrow at the court of the Mecklenburg duke. In 1570 he enrolled at the University in Leipzig . In 1573 Benedikt de Drusina had another collection of lute music printed and dedicated it to the Elector August of Saxony . In 1577 he bought a house in Brühl in Leipzig and acquired citizenship for the high sum of 16 guilders. On March 13, 1578 he bought the neighboring house. This is the last mention of him.
On August 4, 1582, the widow Brigitta took on debts on the house. The organist Petrus de Drusina († 1611) in Danzig and Elbing was probably a son or nephew, as was the organist Fritz de Drusina († 1601) in Hamburg.
Works
Two tablature books with lute music by Benedictus de Drusina Elbingensis have survived . It contains German, Italian and French pieces, some with influences from Danzig vocal music. The books were reprinted several times and were distributed in Brandenburg and Pomerania, among others.
- Tabulatura continens insignes et selectissimas quasdam fantasias: cantiones Germanicas, Italicas, ac Gallicas: Passemezzo, Choreas, et Mutetas [tablature with selected fantasies: German, Italian and French songs], Jam primum in lucem aeditas , Frankfurt / O. 1556 digitized
- Tabulatura continens praestantissimas et selectissimas quasque cantiones, in usum testudinis, à Melchiore Neusydler Italicè invulgatas, Nunc typis germanicis redditas , Frankfurt ad Oder 1573
literature
- Heinrich Grimm: Drusina, Benedictus de. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , pp. 140 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Josef Zuth : Handbook of the lute and guitar. Vienna 1926. Reprint Hildesheim 2003. pp. 83f.
- Wolfgang Boetticher : Benedictus de Drusina . In: Music in the past and present. Volume III. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1954. Sp. 830-832. also Vol. IV. Col. 729.
Web links
- Literature by and about Benedictus de Drusina in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Benedictus Drusina in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Grimm : Master of Renaissance music at the Viadrina . Trowitzsch & Sohn, Frankfurt ad O. 1942. pp. 90–111, 113, 48, 77
- ↑ Gustav had a court orchestra in Stockholm, contacts between the two are not known, possibly Gustav stayed in Danzig or Elbing during his war against Russia or during disputes with Hanseatic cities
- ↑ Clemens Meyer : History of the Güstrower Hofkapelle: Representation of the musical conditions at the Güstrower Fürstenhofe in the 16th and 17th centuries . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 83. Bärensprung, Schwerin 1919. pp. 1-46, here p. 10. online
- ^ Rudolf Wustmann : Music history of Leipzig. Volume 1. By the middle of the 17th century. Leipzig 1926. Reprint Leipzig 1974. p. 189 .
- ↑ Josef Zuth : Handbook of the lute and guitar. Vienna 1926. Reprint Hildesheim 2003. P. 84. ( limited preview in Google book search)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benedictus de Drusina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drusina Elbingensis; Drusina; Benedict of Drusina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Renaissance lutenist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1520 or around 1525 |
| DATE OF DEATH | between 1578 and 1582 |