Hans Neusidler

Hans Neusidler or Hans Newsidler (also Neusiedler and Neysidler ; * 1508 or 1509 in Pressburg ; † February 2, 1563 in Nuremberg ) was a German "Lautenschlager" ( lutenist ) and composer of Hungarian origin. He is considered one of the main representatives of early German lute music.

The Jew Tantz, lute tablature by Hans Neusidler

Life

Hans Neusidler, whose family probably comes from the town of Neusiedl am See on the north bank of Lake Neusiedl , moved to Nuremberg in 1530, the year of his wedding with Margaretha Regenfus from Nuremberg, where his works were first published. His music books contain detailed instructions on how to play the lute according to the German lute tablature and were therefore intended for self-teaching. They had great success, which is why publishers from Venice , Frankfurt and Strasbourg reprinted his lute tablatures. "Like most of the German lutenists of the era, he also represents the type of dignified musical craftsman who 'tells his friends and students about his art as much as God, from whom all gifts come, has given him grace'."

His most important publications were:

• 1536 A Newgeordent Artificial Lute Book. Heylt in two theyl. The first for the upcoming students [...]. Nuremberg 1536 (with a five-year reprint ban).
• 1540 A new lute book, with many beautiful songs [...] including Teutsch and Welsche Tenz. [...]. Nuremberg 1540 (with a two-year reprint ban).
• 1544 The Third Book […]. Nuremberg 1544
• 1549 The other book for the experienced […].

His sons Melchior Neusidler (1531–1590) and Conrad Neusidler (1541 to after 1604) were also lutenists and composers. In 1556 his wife Margeretha died. Hans Neusidler entered into a second marriage five months later, on May 4, 1556, with Walpurg Wittig (died 1562). Neusidler died in 1563 in the house next to the Zachariasbad in Nuremberg.

Neusidler's Gassenhauer served as a template for the composition of the same name by Carl Orff from 1952, which is one of the most popular pieces in the Orff school work .

Other popular works by Neusidler are “Welsche Tänze”, Ein Niderlendisch tentzlein and the Juden-Tanz .

literature

• Mirko Arnone:  Neusidler, Hans. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 12 (Mercadante - Paix). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1122-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
• Erika Bosl: Neusidler (Newsidler, Neysidler), Hans. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 550 ( digitized version ).
• Robert Eitner:  Neusidler, Hans . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 554 f.
• Kurt Dorfmüller:  Neusidler, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 184 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Johannes Klier: Newsidler. Portrait of a family of musicians. In: Guitar & Laute 1, 1979, 3, pp. 22-30.

Web links

• Works by and about Hans Neusidler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Hans Neusidler in VD 16 .
• Sheet music and audio files by Hans Neusidler in the International Music Score Library Project
• Hans Neusiedler at classic-arietta.de
• Hans Neusidler in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wendelin Bitzan: Sounding letters. For the transcription of German lute tablatures using Hans Newsidler's “Entlaubet ist der walde” as an example. In: Phoibos. Zeitschrift für Zupfmusik 8 (2015), pp. 95–115.
2. ↑ Helmuth Osthoff , blurb for the LP Hans Newsidler: 8 lute pieces , archive production 13031 AP (1952)
3. ↑ See for example Hubert Zanoskar (Ed.): Gitarrenspiel old masters. Original music from the 16th and 17th centuries. Volume 1. B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1955 (= Edition Schott. Volume 4620), p. 5 ( Ein Niderlendisch tentzlein from A new artificially Lauttenbuch from 1544) and 17 f. ( A Welisch tentzlein: clira Cassa and Ein Welischer tantz from A newgeordent artificial lute book from 1536) and s. 24 ( Biographical Notes and Notes ).