Hermann Edlerawer

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Hermann Edlerawer (* approx. 1395 in Mainz , † approx. 1458 in Vienna ) was a lawyer and composer who worked in Vienna in the late Middle Ages .

Life

Hermann Edlerawer was born in Mainz in the last years of the 14th century and worked as a clergyman in the local diocese . In the winter of 1413/14 he matriculated at the University of Vienna . From 1427 he was in unspecified services Emperor Sigismund , who gave him a coat of arms granted, and the Archduke Albrecht V . Between 1439 and 1444 he was the cantor of St. Stephen's Cathedral and thus head of the church music there.

In the further course of his life, Edlerawer apparently worked more as a lawyer than as a musician. He appears in several documents as a lay judge and a witness in legal transactions. For the year 1445 a disputation between him and the later Pope Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini in the presence of the Emperor Friedrich III. occupied. From the same year he worked as a kind of ambassador for the city of Vienna, and in 1447 he was procurator at the imperial court. He had married no later than 1450 and was in the service of Ulrich II von Cilli . In 1457 he appears for the last time in documents, namely as a guard of the guard at the Kärntnertor .

Musical creation

A total of seven compositions by Hermann Edlerawer have survived in the Codex St. Emmeram , which were probably composed during his time as cantor of St. Stephan. Except for one rondeau, all compositions are of a spiritual nature. Edlerawer mostly used relatively simple compositional techniques, such as the Fauxbourdons , which he used more often than other composers of the time. His most elaborate work is the sequence Lauda sion Salvatorem , where he makes use of contratenor , paraphrases , various time measures and other techniques. It is of musical historical importance less because of the works themselves, but because of the relatively good sources, which allow the life of a very early composer to be traced very well. Edlerawer is the first composer known by name in Vienna and among the earliest in the German-speaking world.

Traditional works

  • Sequence Verbum bonum et suave
  • Antiphon Beata viscera
  • Rondeau (without text)
  • Father Dominicale
  • Kyrie dominicale
  • Sequence Sancti spiritus
  • Sequence Lauda sion salvatorem

Web links

  • Article in the musical life of the late Middle Ages in the Austria region with recordings of two compositions and scans from the Codex St. Emmeran

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rudolf Flotzinger: Edlerawer, Hermann. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ian Rumbold: Hermann Edlerawer. In: Musical life of the late Middle Ages in the Austria region. August 25, 2014, accessed November 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Edlerawer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Composer and lawyer in Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH around 1395
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH around 1458
Place of death Vienna