Glarean

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Heinrich Glarean, pen drawing by Hans Holbein the Younger

Glarean (us) , actually Heinrich Loriti , also Loritis , Loritti or Loretti (born February 28 or June 2, 1488 in Mollis , Canton Glarus ; † March 27 or March 28, 1563 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Swiss musician, music theorist , Poet, teacher, philologist, historian, geographer, mathematician, humanist and polymath.

Life

The Latin name refers to its origin in the canton of Glarus. After basic training in Bern and with Michael Rubellus (Michael Rötlin; * around 1480, † 1520) in Rottweil , he studied in Vienna and with Matthias Aquensis in Cologne . In 1512 he received his master's degree in Cologne, where he was named Poeta Laureate in 1512 because of a poem in praise of Emperor Maximilian . After he had sided with Reuchlin in the dispute between Johannes Reuchlin and the Cologne Dominicans , he moved to Basel in 1514 , where he had fruitful contact with the printers Johann Froben and Heinrich Petri and the scholars Erasmus von Rotterdam and Oswald Myconius until 1529 acted as a bursa leader ; in the meantime he stayed in Pavia (1515) and Paris (1517-22). His future friend Aegidius Tschudi was his pupil in Basel (1516) .

Since, like Erasmus of Rotterdam, he was bothered by the receding of classical studies before religious questions, he came into ever sharper opposition to the Reformation due to scientific concerns and, after its introduction in Basel, went to Freiburg im Breisgau as a professor of poetics in 1529 . There he taught poetics, history and geography until his retirement in 1560. The city honored him by naming a street.

Glarean's contribution to music theory in his work Dodekachordon (1547) was the expansion of the system of authentic medieval modes to include the Ionic and Aeolian modes , from which the major-minor system later developed, which was used in Western music from around 1700 to 1900 was predominant.

Glarean price

On July 10, 2007, the Swiss Music Research Society awarded the Glarean Prize for the first time in the amount of CHF 10,000. The new science prize is awarded every two years and is intended to honor the work of proven researchers. In the intervening years, a young researcher is also to be awarded CHF 10,000. The recipient of the first Glarean Prize is Reinhard Strohm from the University of Oxford . Other award winners are:

Works

literature

Web links

Commons : Glarean  - collection of images, videos, and audio files
Dodecachordon

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Ulrich Bächtold: Glarean , article in HLS
personal data
SURNAME Glarean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glareanus; Loritti, Heinrich; Loriti, Heinrich; Loritis, Heinrich; Loretti, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss humanist and polymath
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1488 or June 2, 1488
PLACE OF BIRTH Mollis
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1563 or March 28, 1563
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau