Hans the King of the Jews

Woodcut from Ain schone… Instruction 1523

Hans Judenkönig (also Judenkunig , Judenkünig ; * around 1450 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † March 4, 1526 in Vienna ) was a lute player and one of the most important instrumentalists of the Renaissance .

The lute player, who worked in Vienna in the vicinity of the university there, became known in particular for two widespread textbooks for laypeople for self-teaching in lute playing. The popular lute pieces by the Judenkönig include a version of the Easter song Christ ist erehen published in Ain schone kunstliche underweisung in 1523 and, in the same work, a Welsch dance with the title Rossina .

Possibly the name of the family, which can be traced back to Gmünd archives from 1420 to 1477 and belonged to the guild middle class, comes from the role of the "Jewish King" at an Easter game.

Works

Utilis et compendiaria introductio, qua ut fundamento iacto quam facillime musicum exercitium, instrumentorum et lutine, et quod vulgo Geygen nominant, addiscitur. Vienna 1523. (Not 1515)
A nice artificial instruction in this little booklet, to understand leychtlich the right reason to learn on the lutes and geysers. Hans Singryener , Vienna 1523.

literature

Robert Eitner: Judenkünig, Hans . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 654.
Martin Just: Judenkünig, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 638 ( digitized version ).
Adolf Koczirz: The lutenist Hans Judenkünig . In: Collections of the International Music Society 6 (1904-5), pp. 237–249
Martin Kirnbauer. In: Crawford Young & Martin Kirnbauer: Early lute tablatures in the facsimile . Winterthur 2003, pp. 271-272 (= Pratica Musicale. Volume 6).

Web links

Wikisource: Hans Judenkönig - Sources and full texts

Lute tablature in Sarge Gerbode's Lute Page

Sheet music and audio files by Hans Judenkönig in the International Music Score Library Project

Article with sound sample in AEIOU

Remarks

↑ See also Siegfried Behrend (Hrsg.): Altdeutsche Lautenmusik for guitar (= Old European lute music for guitar. Issue 3). Edition Sikorski. No. 525). Music publisher Hans Sikorski, Hamburg 1959 (= Edition Sikorski. No. 525), p. 5 (Hans Judenkunig: Christ is erupted , followed by And who he did not erupt ).
↑ Heinz Teuchert (ed.): Masters of the Renaissance (= My first guitar pieces. Book 3). G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag, Munich 1971 (= Ricordi. Sy. 2201), ISBN 978-3-931788-33-9 , p. 5.
^ Klaus Graf : On the family of the lute player Hans Judenkünig from Schwäbisch Gmünd . In: ostalb / einhorn 6 (1979), issue 21, p. 118, 120 Commons .
↑ The previous early dating z. B. with "151? -1" in Howard Mayer Brown is based on Adolf Koczirz's essay from 1904-5. Martin Kirnbauer refuted the argumentation given in it for different print data of the two collections. Rather, the copies received, in which an exchange of positions from the two prints can often be observed, speak for the same printing date.

personal data
SURNAME	King of the Jews, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Judenkunig, Hans; Judenkünig, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lute player
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1450
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF DEATH	March 4, 1526
Place of death	Vienna

[1] See also Siegfried Behrend (Hrsg.): Altdeutsche Lautenmusik for guitar (= Old European lute music for guitar. Issue 3). Edition Sikorski. No. 525). Music publisher Hans Sikorski, Hamburg 1959 (= Edition Sikorski. No. 525), p. 5 (Hans Judenkunig: Christ is erupted , followed by And who he did not erupt ).

[2] Heinz Teuchert (ed.): Masters of the Renaissance (= My first guitar pieces. Book 3). G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag, Munich 1971 (= Ricordi. Sy. 2201), ISBN 978-3-931788-33-9 , p. 5.

[3] Klaus Graf : On the family of the lute player Hans Judenkünig from Schwäbisch Gmünd . In: ostalb / einhorn 6 (1979), issue 21, p. 118, 120 Commons .

[4] The previous early dating z. B. with "151? -1" in Howard Mayer Brown is based on Adolf Koczirz's essay from 1904-5. Martin Kirnbauer refuted the argumentation given in it for different print data of the two collections. Rather, the copies received, in which an exchange of positions from the two prints can often be observed, speak for the same printing date.