Johannes Flamingus

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Johannes Flamingus († around 1598 ) was a Flemish-German conductor and composer of the Renaissance .

Life

Not much is known about his life. From 1565 to 1567 he worked as a tindermaker in Leiden ; the fifth and sixth volumes of the Leiden choir books created at the Pieterskerk (Leiden) contain 62 works in his characteristic handwriting. 32 of these works are marked with his name, the others are also ascribed to him.

In 1571, Duke Johann Albrecht I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin appointed him as the successor to David Köler as Hofkapellmeister and director of the "Hof-Cantorej", today's Staatskapelle Schwerin . From this year his Opusculum Cantionum , a collection of a five-part mass and 10 four- to six-part motets , has been preserved in the Rostock University Library . All movements of the mass contain the interpolation Vivat Joannes dux megapolensis in aeternum ( Long live Johannes Duke of Mecklenburg in eternity ), in the Agnus Dei it is set as a two-part canon . It is believed that the mass and the motets were written to celebrate the end of the Three Crowns War .

In January 1573 he still certifies that he had received school fees for six Cantorey boys ; but later that year he seems to have left Schwerin because he is mentioned as a cantor in Zwickau . His successor in Schwerin was Thomas Mancinus (Menckin).

Works

  • Opusculum cantionum, 1571. Ed. By Ole Kongsted (Capella Hafniensis Editions Series A: Renaissance Music, 2). København: Capella Hafniensis Editions in cooperation with The Royal Library, 2002 ISMN M-706785-01-1
  • O Lamb of God, innocent: Motet for four voices from the “Opusculum Cantionum 1571”. Modifications made by Hartwig Eschenburg . [Rostock]: Self-published the arrangement, 2003

literature

  • Otto Kade: The music collection of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin Princely House from the last two centuries. Volume I. Printed by the Sandmeyer Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1898 ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Johannes Flamingus. In: Robert Eitner , Hermann Wilhelm Springer: Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars ... Volume 5. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1901. P. 288
  • Eric Jas: De koorboeken van de Pieterskerk te Leiden. Het zestiende-eeuwse musical erfgoed van een Hollands getijdencollege. (Dissertation University of Utrecht 1997)
  • Susan Lewis Hammond: Review: Johannes Flamingus: Opusculum cantionum, 1571. In: Danish Yearbook of Musicology 31 (2003), p. 131 f. ( Digitized PDF; 127 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De Leidse Koorboeken - Composers ( Memento from January 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Signature Mus. Saec. XVI, 19 ( online at RosDok - attention, very large file!)
  3. ↑ Kade (lit.), p. IV

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personal data
SURNAME Flamingus, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Kapellmeister and composer of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH around 1598