Martin Peerson
Martin Peerson (* around 1572 in March , Cambridgeshire ; buried January 16, 1651 in London ) was an English composer and organist of the Baroque era .
Life
Peerson studied at Oxford until 1613 . In 1624 or 1625 he became organist and choirmaster at St Paul's Cathedral in London .
Works (selection)
- Teares or Lamentacions (1614)
- Tristitiae Remedium (1616)
- Private Musicke (1620) contains secular music for one or two voices, violin and virginal .
- Mottects or Grave Chamber Music (1630) contains 15 Latin motets .
The four tracks Alman, The Fall of the Leafe, Piper's Paven, The Primrose are included in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book .
literature
- Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . tape 4 . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 280-281 .
- Richard Rastall: Peerson, Martin. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 14 (Riccati - Schönstein). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1134-9 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
Web links
- Sheet music in the public domain by Martin Peerson in the Choral Public Domain Library - ChoralWiki (English)
- Sheet music and audio files by Martin Peerson in the International Music Score Library Project
- Peerson Project ( Memento July 6, 2017 on the Internet Archive ) at the University of Leeds
- Richard Rastall: Peerson, Martin. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peerson, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English composer and organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1572 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | March , Cambridgeshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | buried January 15, 1651 |
| Place of death | London |