Cornelius Burgh
Cornelius Burgh (* around 1590 in Cologne , † around 1639 in Erkelenz ) was a German lawyer , organist and composer of the early Baroque .
Life
Cornelius Burgh studied law and music in Cologne. From 1616 to 1618 he was employed as an organist in the service of the Mönchengladbach Benedictines at the Münsterkirche . In 1618 he married Eva Aredtz in Mönchengladbach and moved with her to Erkelenz, where he worked as a notary , lawyer and organist at the parish church of St. Lambertus . His two daughters Catharina (* 1618) and Anna (* 1621) were born in Erkelenz.
Because of his main occupation, Burgh began composing late. 1626 presented his collection of 20 three-part sacred concerts , Liber primus concertum ecclesiasticorum . In his Hortus Marianus collection of 25 four-part sacred concerts, published in 1630, he only uses Marian texts. The works of composers such as Claudio Monteverdi, Lodovico Grossi da Viadana and Alessandro Grandi, combined with the monody that was then reviving in Italy and the beginning of the figured bass music, served as models . Burgh's works found distribution in the Rhineland and the Spanish Netherlands .
New editions and literature
- Cornelius Burgh: Sacred concerts for four voices, ed. by Karlheinz Höfer in the series Monuments of Rhenish Music . Düsseldorf 1957.
- Karlheinz Höfer: Cornelius Burgh (around 1590–1638), Volume 1: Life and Work. Italian monody and sacred concert in the Rhineland. Berlin 1993 ISBN 3-87537-256-5
- Karlheinz Höfer: Concerti ecclesiastici. Cornelius Burgh and his contemporaries. 1999 (CD with booklet). ISBN 3-934115-02-0
Honors
In 1985, the girls' grammar school in Erkelenz was converted into a coeducational school and at the same time renamed the Cornelius Burgh grammar school after the composer . Two years earlier, a chamber choir was founded in the Heimatverein of the Erkelenzer Lande eV, which gave itself its name.
Web links
- Literature by and about Cornelius Burgh in the catalog of the German National Library
- Curriculum vitae on the website of the Cornelius Burgh Choir Erkelenz
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Burgh, Cornelius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, organist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1590 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1639 |
| Place of death | Erkelenz |