Erhart Öglin

Erhart Öglin , also in the first name spelling Erhard and the last name spelling Oeglin or Oglin and Latinized Ocellus occurring (* around 1470 in Reutlingen , † around 1520 in Augsburg ), was a German printer with a focus on printing music . In 1512, Öglin was the first printer in Germany to print sheet music, the German Song Book , which contains 43 German sacred and secular songs as well as six Latin chants.

life and work

The exact year of birth and death of Erhart Öglin are not known. From 1491 he was recorded as a printer in Basel , from 1498 in Tübingen and from 1505 to 1520 in Augsburg . Öglin partly worked with the book printers Johann Otmar and Jörg Nadler ( Stellae musicae juvenibus, 1508). Humanistic works, folk writings and newspapers were published in his printing house . Another musical work published by Öglin is Melopoiae sive harmonicae tetracentiae by Petrus Tritonius (1507). Composer names were not mentioned in the German songbook mentioned above . By comparing these songs with compositional works, Paulus Hofhaymer , Heinrich Isaac , Machinger , Adam Rener and Ludwig Senfl were identified as their composers. Öglin was the first German printer to use the type duplication process. In this process, first the staves and only in a second font the types for the notes were put into the printing set.

swell

• Öglin, Erhard . In: Wilibald Gurlitt (Ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon . 12th, completely revised edition. Persons part: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1961, p. 337 .
• Erhart Öglin:  Karl Steiff . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 177-179.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erhart Öglin in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Öglin, Erhard. In: Augsburg Wiki. Retrieved April 17, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Wilibald Gurlitt : Erhart Öglin. In: Riemann Musiklexikon.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Karl Steiff: Erhart Öglin. In: ADB.