Konrad von Zabern

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Konrad von Zabern or Conrad von Zabern († between 1476 and 1481) was a German theologian and music theorist .

Latinized forms of the name are Conradus de Zabern and Conradus de Zabernia . During the semester, 1408/1409 was a Conradus Henzcenclaus de Sabernia diocesis Argitenensis at the arts faculty of the University of Heidelberg enrolled , was there in 1410 for bachelor and in 1412 the licentiate doctorate and for 1414 and 1417 examinator baccalauriandorum selected. However, there is another person, Conradus Zabern, clericus diocesis Spirensis , who also enrolled in Heidelberg in 1425/1426 and obtained a Baccalaureus in 1428 and a licentiate in 1430. It is not clear whether and which of the two people was the person described here.

There is little news about the life of Konrad, but it shows that he was very involved for the benefit of the church and supported the church reform ideas of his time. He was a skilled theologian and famous preacher. In Heidelberg he held the office of university preacher. His exemplary way of life and deep religiosity are also mentioned. In the years from 1460 to 1470 he worked as a hiking magister in the service of music in the areas of the Upper Rhine , Main and Moselle .

He wrote a music theory Novellus musicae artis tractatus , based on writings by Johannes Affligemensis (Johannes Cotto), Guido von Arezzo and Pseudo-Odo . He then performed these publicly at the Universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg and Basel, using a key monochord that he had built himself to visualize it. He also explained in detail the construction of this instrument. A replica of it is in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg . He recommended using the key monochord for chanting, teaching and learning. Konrad visited this time, the cathedrals and collegiate of Basel , Strasbourg , Speyer , Worms , Mainz and Würzburg to the chant reform. To this end, he propagated a modus bene cantandi , a singing theory. The translation of his work De modo bene cantandi was created between 1478 and 1495 in the Benedictine monastery of St. Stephan in Würzburg as a German-language choral teaching .

In 1466 he was temporarily at St. Jacob's Monastery in Mainz. In 1472 he became a master at the newly founded university in Ingolstadt . In 1475 Konrad was a famous person. His treatises are of musical historical value today.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Object catalog of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg
  2. ↑ Rudolf Denk : 'Doctrine of Choral Singing'. In: Author's Lexicon . Volume V, Col. 659 f.

Works

Literature and modern editions

  • Rudolf Denk: "Musica tuscht". German technical prose of the late Middle Ages in the field of music. 1981, pp. 76-83.
  • Joseph Dyer: Singing with Proper Refinement from De modo bene cantandi (1474) by Conrad von Zabern. In: Early Music. 6, 1978, pp. 207-227.
  • Karl-Werner Gümpel: The music tracts Conrad von Zabern. In: Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class, Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. Born in 1956, No. 4; De modo bene cantandi, pp. 260-282 (and pp. 283-297: French translation); Novellus musicae artis tractatus, pp. 184-244; Opusculum de monochordo, pp. 245-259.
  • Karl-Werner Gümpel: The key monochord Conrad von Zabern. In: Archives for Musicology . 12th year, volume 2. Steiner, Stuttgart 1955, pp. 143–166.
  • Karl-Werner Gümpel:  Konrad von Zabern. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 557 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl-Werner Gümpel, Gerhardt Powitz: Konrad von Zabern. In: German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . Part 5. 2nd edition. 1985, pp. 304-308.
  • Fridrich Pfaff (ed.): Konrad von Zabern. In: Germania. Quarterly. Volume 25, 1880, p. 105 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Julius Richter: Two writings by Conrad von Zabern. In: Monthly Issues for Music History. 20, 1888, pp. 41-48, pp. 95-106.
  • Martin Vogeleis: Collectura de modo. In: Strasbourg Cäcilia. 4, 5, 6, 1908.
  • Peter Wagner: On the music history of the university. In: Archives for Musicology. 3, 1921, pp. 1-16.
  • Commemorative publication for the International Congress of Gregorian Chant. Le Roux, Strasbourg 1905.
personal data
SURNAME Konrad von Zabern
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Conrad von Zabern
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian theologian and music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH between 1476 and 1481