Hugo Spechtshart from Reutlingen
Hugo Spechtshart von Reutlingen - also Hugo von Reutlingen - (* probably 1285 in Reutlingen ; † 1359/60 there) was a German pedagogue, chronicler and music theorist .
He was a chaplain at the Marienkirche in Reutlingen. His Latin writings, mostly in verse, are important testimonies to music education in the Middle Ages. The chronicle manuscript, kept in Saint Petersburg , contains melodies from the scourge songs, which were sung in the plague year of 1349.
Fonts
- Flores musicae (1332/42), seal about the Cantus Gregorianus, 653 hexameters
- Forma discendi (1346), instruction in the practice of school learning and writing, 771 hexameters
- Chronicle (1347/50), 804 hexameters; There is a Latin commentary on the work
- Speculum grammaticae (1350/58), 5420 hexametric verses, together with Konrad Spechtshart, who wrote a commentary on it
literature
- Theodor Schön: Hugo Spechtshart from Reutlingen . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 77.
- Karl-Werner Gümpel: Hugo Spechtshart from Reutlingen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 23 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Karl-Werner Gümpel: Hugo Spechtshart von Reutlingen, Flores musicae (1332/42) (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born 1958, No. 3).
- Eberhard Stiefel: Life, work and works of Hugo Spechtshart von Reutlingen. In: Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter. Neue Episode 24, 1985, pp. 7-169.
- Ulrike Bodemann: Spechtshart, Hugo, from Reutlingen . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Volume 9 (1993), Col. 35-40.
- George A. Speckert : Hugo Spechtshart - ars nova: The discovery of new music. A reconstructed biography . Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel Verlag [2016], ISBN 978-3-7959-0998-7 Table of contents , review
Web links
Commons : Hugo Spechtshart - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Literature by and about Hugo Spechtshart von Reutlingen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hugo Spechtshart von Reutlingen in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Description of the chronicle manuscript in St. Petersburg
- Digitized from a Flores manuscript
- musicologie.org
- extensive compilation by Klaus Graf 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hugo Spechtshart from Reutlingen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spechtshart from Reutlingen; Hugo von Reutlingen; Hugo Spechtshart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German schoolboy, chronicler and music theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1285 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reutlingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1359 or 1360 |
| Place of death | Reutlingen |