Hans Heyden (instrument maker)

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Hans Heyden (also: Haiden ; born January 19, 1536 in Nuremberg ; buried October 22, 1613 there ) was a German musical instrument maker and organist .

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Violin work (1625) by Raymundo Truchado in the Brussels Instrument Museum

From 1567 to 1583 Heyden was the organist in Nuremberg and in 1575 he built the first Nuremberg violin work or violin pianoforte , which served as a model for all later string pianos . In 1576 the instrument was presented in the Munich court orchestra directed by Orlandus Lassus . When making the violin, the strings are made to vibrate like a hurdy-gurdy. Heyden had a description of his violin work printed under the title Musicale instrumentum reformatum in 1610 . In it he describes the advantages of the instrument, such as a long lasting tone, vibrato and the ability to bring out nuances. Of the original instruments, only the descriptions of its builder and Michael Praetorius remain .

In the Brussels Instrument Museum there is a violin work built by Raymundo Truchado in Spain in 1625, which is no longer playable.

literature

  • Alfred Baumgartner: Early Music: From the beginnings of occidental music to the completion of the Renaissance . Kiesel, Salzburg 1981, ISBN 3-7023-0120-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Seeger : music lexicon persons A-Z . Deutscher Verlag für Musik , Leipzig 1981, p. 337 .
  2. ↑ Heyden  1). In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 8 . Altenburg 1859, p. 358 ( zeno.org ).
  3. ↑ Jérome Lejeune : Guide through the historical instruments . Ricercar label, RIC 100, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Heyden, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haiden, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musical instrument maker and organist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1536
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH buried October 22, 1613
Place of death Nuremberg