Joachim Burmeister

Joachim Burmeister (* 1564 in Lüneburg ; † May 5, 1629 in Rostock ) was a North German music theorist , composer and poet .

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He was the oldest of five children of a pearl embroiderer and a citizen of Lüneburg. His brother Anton, who died around 1634, became cantor of St. Michaelis Church in Lüneburg in 1604 , succeeding Christian Praetorius .

Burmeister attended the University of Rostock , where he received his master's degree . From 1589 he was cantor of the Rostock Latin School ( Schoale Rostochiensis Collega Classicus ) and the Marienkirche .

Works

Title page of the Musica poetica (1606)

1599 Hypomnematum Musicae Poeticae
In 1601 he published a collection of four-part psalms.
1601 Musica αυτοσχεδικη , as well as from it decoupled for practical music lessons Musicae practicae sive artis caneni ratio
1605 in Rostock Χριστὸς πεφασμένος, the revealed Christ, comedy , digitized .
In 1606 he published his Musica poetica , in which he carried out his musical and rhetorical theory of figures.
In 1609 he is editor of the Musica Mathematica by Heinrich Brucaeus (1531–1593) under the title Musica theorica . Based on Brucaeus' work, he looks for new rhetorical figures in music.

Individual evidence

↑ See the entry of Joachim Burmeister's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

↑ See the entry of Joachim Burmeister's master's degree in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

Agathe Sueur, Vie de Joachim Burmeister , Paris, Rhuthmos, 2019.
Agathe Sueur, "La grande éloquence musicale: lamprophonie et chalcophonie chez Joachim Burmeister (1564–1629)", Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric , Vol. 2, Spring 2018 (pp. 132-159).
Joachim Burmeister, Poétique musicale. Suivi de David Chytraeus - De la Musique , French translation, introduction, Lexicon by Agathe Sueur and Pascal Dubreuil, Paris, Rhuthmos, 2017. ISBN 979-10-95155-17-1
Joachim Burmeister, Musica poetica (1606) augmentée des plus excellentes remarques tirées de Hypomnematum musicae poeticae (1599) et de Musica autoschédiastikè (1601) , introduction, Latin text and French translation, lexicon by Agathe Sueur and Pascal Dubreuil , Wavre, Mardaga, 2007 .
Martin Ruhnke : Joachim Burmeister: a contribution to music theory around 1600 . Bärenreiter-Verl., Kassel 1955. Writings of the State Institute for Music Research, Kiel, Vol. 5.
Ruhnke, Martin: Art. "Burmeister, Joachim", in: MGG2, Person Teil Bd. 3, Kassel u. a. 2000.
Arrey von Dommer, Wilhelm Scherer: Burmeister, Joachim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 628 f.
Hans-Heinrich Unger: Burmeister, Joachim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 54 ( digitized version ).
Ralf Böckmann: Burmeister, Joachim. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 32, Bautz, Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88309-615-5 , Sp. 195-197.

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personal data
SURNAME	Burmeister, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Late Renaissance composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1564
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH	May 5, 1629
Place of death	Rostock

[1] See the entry of Joachim Burmeister's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

[2] See the entry of Joachim Burmeister's master's degree in the Rostock matriculation portal