Martin Agricola

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Martin Agricola , also Martinus Agricola , actually Martin Sore (* allegedly January 6, 1486 in Schwiebus ; † June 10, 1556 in Magdeburg ) - also Sohr or Sorre - was a German music theorist , music teacher and composer of the Renaissance .

Life

Martin Agricola was born in Schwiebus in East Brandenburg as the son of a rich farmer (Latin agricola ) and enjoyed a school education. At first he worked on his parents' farm. From 1510 he traveled through Eastern Germany. During this phase he acquired the basics of his musical knowledge as an autodidact . The stations of his journey are unknown; Frankfurt (Oder) and Leipzig probably belonged to them.

Image from Musica instrumentalis deudsch , 1529

In 1519 Agricola settled in Magdeburg as a music teacher. When the Reformation took hold in the city shortly afterwards, Agricola joined it. As part of the introduction of the new creed, the various music schools were merged into a single municipal institution, whose cantor Agricola was appointed in 1525. In addition to his teaching role, Agricola tried above all to give the new Protestant movement its own church music. In 1528 he published Ein Kurz deudsche Musica ( Musica Choralis Deudsch ), a popular guide to music lessons. Musica Figuralis Deudsch and Musica instrumentalis deudsch (1529) followed as further textbooks, the latter in particular standing out from Agricola's work as research work on musical instruments and one of the most important works of early organ studies .

City councilor and music publisher Georg Rhau from Wittenberg was a close friend of Agricola's. He published his theoretical work, which contained valuable contributions on the change from the old to the new system of notation . Numerous musical terms such as scale , clef or beat were coined by Agricola.

Agricola was the first to harmonize Martin Luther's chorale A solid castle is our god into a four-part choral setting.

The city of Magdeburg has named a street ( Martin-Agricola-Straße ) after him.

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  1. ↑ The date of birth is for Eduard Emil Koch : History of hymns and hymns . 3. Edition. Volume 1. Belser, Stuttgart 1866, p. 461 ( digitized in the Google book search) without sources given and not supported by documents.
personal data
SURNAME Agricola, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agricola, Martinus (full name); Sore, Martin (real name); Sohr, Martin; Sorre, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music theorist, music teacher and composer of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: January 6, 1486
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwiebus
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1556
Place of death Magdeburg