Georg Leopold Fuhrmann

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Georg Leopold Fuhrmann , latinized Leopoldus Furmannus (baptized on March 2, 1578 in Nuremberg ; buried on December 10, 1616 there ) was a German book printer , music publisher , bookseller , engraver and lutenist .

Life

Fuhrmann was the son of the book printer and music publisher Valentin Fuhrmann (* approx. 1540; † 1608), who came to Nuremberg from Suhl and Schleusingen . According to entries in matriculation books, he studied in Jena (1597), Marburg (1599), Tübingen (1601) and Basel (1604), and according to his own statements also in France . Fuhrmann was a citizen of Nuremberg. From 1607 he worked in his father's business, which he took over the following year after his death and expanded it to include a type foundry . He misplaced u. a. music theory writings and music prints. He was particularly interested in playing the lute , which he also practiced and promoted with a large number of important publications. He was in contact with important European lutenists of his time, including Jean-Baptiste Besard , Elias Mertel (around 1516–1626), Antoine Francisque , Philipp Hainhofer and probably also John Dowland . He misplaced u. a. Writings and works by Maternus Beringer , Christoph Demantius , Melchior Franck , Johann Andreas Herbst and Ambrosius Metzger . Fuhrmann was also active in drafting new German, Latin and Greek scripts. After Fuhrmann's death in 1616, his widow and heirs continued the printing business.

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His most important contribution to music history is the lute book Testudo Gallo-Germanica, hoc est: novae et nunquam antehac editae recreationes musicae, ad testudinis asum et tabulaturam , which he edited and published in 1615 in Nuremberg and in French tablature , which is considered to be one of the most important sources of lute music of the early 17th century applies.

The 180-page work contains a large number of lute tablatures by lutenists from all over Europe and a translation into German of Antoine Francisque's Instruction pour réduire toutes sortes de tabulatures de luth en musique et réciproquement , with which the French style of tablature was introduced into the German-speaking world has been.

The Testudo not only provides an interesting selection of European lute pieces of its time, it is also the main and sometimes only source for the works of a few less well-known lutenists. The strongest represented with 20 works is Hans Leo Haßler , making Testudo the tablature collection with most of Haßler's works. Works by the composers Valentin Strobel and Anglus Aloyson have been handed down exclusively through Fuhrmann's Testudo .

A piece of music known as dance has come down to us from Fuhrmann himself , which today is a popular, easily playable renaissance work for guitar and related instruments and is represented in collections of classical guitar works.

literature

  • Jürgen May: Georg Leopold Fuhrmann's Testudo Gallo-Germanica: a printed lute tablature from 1615. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1992. (At the same time dissertation Bonn 1989).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GK Nagler et al.: Die Monogrammisten ... III. Volume: GK-IML. Verlag Georg Franz, Munich 1863, p. 26, no. 92 (Georg Leopold Fuhrmann).
  2. ^ Johann Gottfried Walther : Musicalisches Lexicon [...] Wolffgang Deer, Leipzig 1732, p. 269.
  3. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Boetticher: Fuhrmann, Georg Leopold. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd Edition. Volume 9: Florence-Gligo. Macmillan, London 2001, p. 333.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Jürgen May: Fuhrmann, 1. Valentin 2. Georg Leopold. In: Music in the past and present. Volume: Person part 7 Fra-Gr. Bärenreiter Verlag, 2002, p. 256.
  5. ^ JG Doppelmayr: Historical news from the Nuremberg mathematicians and artists ... Peter Conrad Monaths, Nuremberg 1730.
  6. ↑ The so necessary as useful book printing and writing foundry: Zweyter Theil. Geßner, Leipzig 1740, p. 92.
  7. ↑ testudo , Latin for turtle shell, was a name for the lute.
  8. ^ Alfred Baumgartner: The great music guide. Band: early music. Kiesel, Salzburg 1981, p. 677.
  9. ↑ z. BJ Willard (Ed.): The Library of Guitar Classics. New York 1998, p. 9.
  10. ↑ Frederick Noad: The Renaissance Guitar. (= The Frederick Noad Guitar Anthology. Part 1). Ariel Publications, New York 1974; Reprint: Amsco Publications, New York / London / Sydney [no year], ISBN 0-7119-0958-X , p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Fuhrmann, Georg Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German printer, music publisher, bookseller, engraver and lutenist
DATE OF BIRTH baptized March 2, 1578
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH buried December 10, 1616
Place of death Nuremberg