Music year 1503

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Music year 1503

In 1503 Gregor Reisch published the encyclopedia Margarita philosophica in Latin between 1489 and 1496 . The illustration shows the title woodcut of the first edition. As Universitas literarum, the work contains the entire human knowledge of the late Middle Ages. The seven liberal arts are dealt with in twelve books, followed by the principles and origins of natural things, physiology, psychology and moral philosophy. One of the chapters deals with musica, that is, with music and music theory.

Events

Holy Roman Empire

• Archduke Philip the Fair of Castile travels with his Grande Chapelle from November 4, 1501 to November 8, 1503 to Spain, France, Austria and Germany. Important musicians and composers in this court orchestra who accompany him are Pierre de la Rue , Alexander Agricola , Marbriano de Orto , Antonius Divitis and Nicolas Champion . The highlights of the trip in 1503 include:
  • February: the encounter with the Moors of Saragossa and stay with the mystery plays of Perpignan .
  • March: the meeting with the French king in Lyon .
  • April 11th : Archduke Philip the Fair and his Grande Chapelle meet in Bourg-en-Bresse with Philip's sister Margaret of Austria , Duchess of Savoy , and her court chapel. The most important musician in the court orchestra of Margaret of Austria at this time was Antoine de Févin .
  • September: the meeting of the court orchestras of Philip the Beautiful and Maximilian I in Augsburg and Innsbruck . Here the musicians of the Grande Chapelle might meet Jacob Obrecht on his way to Italy.
  • Finally the court orchestra moves back to Mechelen via Heidelberg and Cologne . In Heidelberg, Pierre de la Rue, Alexander Agricola and Henry Bredemers will most likely meet the organist, composer and organ expert Arnolt Schlick .
• Petrus Alamire , who comes from Nuremberg , lives in Antwerp and produces ung grant libre de musicke for Philip the Beautiful.
• Antoine Brumel , who left the ducal chapel of Duke Filiberto (reign 1497–1504) in Savoy in July 1502, was at the height of his fame around this time. This is particularly supported by the publication of a volume of his masses by the music publisher Ottaviano dei Petrucci in 1503. This honor is bestowed only on the most famous composers of the time. The music theorist Franchinus Gaffurius had previously counted him in his work “Practica musica” (1496) among the most important representatives of a new musical style.
• From 1503 Wolfgang Dachstein studies music and theology with Martin Luther in Erfurt .
• Jean Molinet has been a historiographer (chronicler) and court poet at the ducal court of Philip the Fair (reign 1482–1506) in Burgundy since 1482 . Here he is friends with musicians and composers such as Johannes Ockeghem , Loyset Compère , Verjus and Antoine Busnoys .
• Jacob Obrecht , who has worked as vicar and singer at the Marienkirche in Antwerp since June 24, 1501 and as a choirmaster for the Marienbruderschaft there, tries in spring 1503 to attract the attention of the Roman-German King Maximilian I (reign 1493-1519) to do, presumably by composing the mass “Sub tuum presidium” for him. He gets on April 22 in Namur a gift from the farm of the future emperor, "from because of a Ambts Regina celi So he made Unn". Obrecht then seems to have given up his job in Antwerp in the summer and traveled to Italy via Augsburg and Innsbruck . For the meeting of Philip the Beautiful of Burgundy with Maximilian I in September 1503 in Augsburg, he probably composed the Missa "Maria zart". It may be his last mass.
• Adam Rener , who went to Burgundy “ad studium” in 1500 , is referred to as a composer in 1503 after his return to the Habsburg court of King Maximilian I in Innsbruck .

France

• Loyset Compère is prévôt (provost) at the collegiate church of Saint-Pierre in Douai until 1503 or 1504 . A document from those years shows that it is now baccalaureus utrisque juris (a degree of both rights).
• Johannes Prioris , who may have been a member of the French court orchestra since the end of the 1480s, is verifiably Kapellmeister ( maître de chapelle ) of the court orchestra from 1503 to 1512 . The ambassador of the city of Ferrara at the French court wrote on June 8, 1503 to Duke Ercole I of Ferrara (reign 1471–1505), sending him a mass from Prioris, the conductor of King Louis XII. from France.

Italy

• Marco Cara has been a lute virtuoso in the service of the Gonzaga family in Mantua since 1495 and until 1525 , who promoted artists of all kinds in his day.
• After leaving the papal chapel, Josquin Desprez moved to the court chapel of the French King Louis XII , at least from 1501 to 1503 . († 1515). Deprez and the composer Johannes Ghiselin , also a member of the court orchestra of the French king, were poached to the court chapel of Duke Ercole I. d'Este in Ferrara in 1503 . Duke Ercole has been looking for a new conductor since the death of Johannes Martini in 1497 and, with the help of his agent Girolamo da Sestola (called "Coglia") and his son Alfonso d'Este, after a diplomatic meeting with Louis XII. looking for candidates in France and maybe even negotiating with Josquin. Another Ercoles agent, Gian de Artiganova , was looking for singers for Ercole's court orchestra in Savoy and from there named Heinrich Isaac as a possible candidate for the direction of the orchestra . Duke Ercole chooses Josquin Desprez and grants him the required, extraordinarily high salary. Josquin and Ghiselin are apparently recruited in Paris , travel together with the agent Coglia in a magnificent equipage drawn by five horses and stop in Lyon on April 12 , where Louis XII. and Philip the Fair with their court orchestras. Josquin has not yet arrived in Ferrara on April 28th. Josquin receives his first salary on June 13 , and on July 5 he is named Kapellmeister for the first time.
• After Josquin Desprez assumed the position of court conductor in Ferrara, Lodovico Fogliano reappeared in the pay lists of Duke Ercole I. d'Este's court orchestra in 1503 and 1504 .
• Heinrich Isaac , who has lived mainly in Florence since 1502 , composes the six-part mass “ Virgo prudentissima ” for the visit to the court chapel of Philip the Beautiful in Innsbruck .

Vocal music

Spiritually

• Antoine Brumel
  • 5 Masses : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
  • Lauda, ​​Sion, Salvatorem : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
• Josquin Desprez
  • Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae for four voices (Ferrara, 1503/1504)
  • Motette Ave verum corpus : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
  • Motet Domine, non secundum peccata nostra : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
  • Motet O Domine Jesu Christe : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
  • Motet Qui velatus facie fuisti : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
  • Motet Tu solus qui facis mirabilia : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
• Johannes Ghiselin - 5 Masses : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
• Heinrich Isaac
  • Missa Virgo prudentissima to six voices
  • Motet Quis dabit capiti meo aquam : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
• Jacob Obrecht
  • Missa Maria zart (Southern German Marian song of the 15th century; written for the imperial court to meet Philip the Fair; Augsburg; probably Obrecht's last mass)
  • Missa Sub tuum praesidium (Marian antiphon isorhythmic in soprano, plus six other Marian chorale melodies from the Credo to Agnus Dei; probably for the Easter celebration of Maximilian I in the pilgrimage church of Halle (Hal) in Hainaut )
  • 5 Masses : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project
• Pierre de la Rue - 5 Masses : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
• Gaspar van Weerbeke
  • Motet Anima Christi sanctifica me for four voices
  • Motet Ave verum corpus for four voices
  • Motet Panis angelicus for four voices, anonymously as "Ave panis angelorum", 1508 (assignment uncertain)
  • Motet Tenebræ factæ sunt : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
  • Motet Verbum caro factum est with four voices, anonymously as "O inextimabilis" or "Ave nostra salus"

Publications

• Ottaviano dei Petrucci (Ed.) - Motetti B : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music