Music year 1517
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Overview of the music years
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Events
- January: Andreas Ornitoparchus publishes his main work in Leipzig , the music theory treatise Musice active micrologus. With its material breadth, the work surpasses all other music-theoretical treatises of the time. The first book deals with the cantus planus , unison music with note values of the same length. The second and third books deal with musica mensuralis , polyphonic music, with numerous musical examples, and with the so-called accentus ecclesiasticus (church accent). Finally, the fourth book deals with counterpoint . Another novelty in the book is the naming of 16 people who are considered exemplary composers in the eyes of Ornitoparchus: Alexander Agricola , Georg Brack, Antoine Brumel , Loyset Compère , Caspar Czeys, Josquin Desprez , Heinrich Finck , Johannes Ghiselin , Heinrich Isaac , Erasmus Lapicida , Pierre de La Rue , Jacob Obrecht , Johannes Ockeghem , Matthaeus Pipelare , Conrad Rein and Johannes Tinctoris .
- Bonifacius Amerbach , who initially studied at the Artistic Faculty of the University of Basel and listened to music theory there, has continued his studies at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau since 1513 , where he turns to law . Here he is on friendly terms with Sixt Dietrich and the organist Hans Weck.
- Benedictus Appenzeller has been a singer at the Church of St. Jacob in Bruges since 1517 and is promoted to the position of sangmeester there. However, he will retain this position for a maximum of one year.
- Jakob Arcadelt was a choirboy ("vicariot") from 1516 to 1524 under the choirmasters Lambert Masson and Charles de Niquet at the collegiate church of St. Aubain in his hometown of Namur .
- Pietro Aron is a priest in Imola .
- Hans Buchner is the cathedral organist at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Constance .
- 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.
- Vincenzo Capirola works in Venice. One of Capirola's pupils began writing the so-called “Capirola Lute Book” in Venice in 1515 , which he completed in 1520. It is a richly illustrated manuscript that not only contains compositions, but also information on playing technique in the foreword and thus provides important information about lute playing during the Italian Renaissance.
- Carpentras is Kapellmeister of the papal chapel in Rome under the Medici Pope Leo X , who is an avid patron of music and the arts.
- Marco Antonio Cavazzoni worked in Venice between 1517 and 1524 as a singer at St. Mark's Basilica and organist at Santo Stefano .
- Nicolas Champion 's as canon - Kantor in Lier successor to the late cantor de Nicolas Leesmeester. He remains temporarily in the service of Charles V's court orchestra .
- Loyset Compère is probably a canon at the collegiate church of Saint-Quentin , where he has held a canon since November 1491 at the latest.
- From 1516 to 1517, Jean Courtois worked in Cambrai as “ petit vicaire” .
- Josquin Desprez has been provost at his former place of work in Condé-sur-l'Escaut since 1504 . He is referred to as monsieur le prevost messire Josse des pres . The position is attractive for the former music director not only for its local property ownership, but even more because of the good staffing the church and the quality of the local music exercise, second only to the cathedral in Cambrai and Saint-Vincent in Soignies exceeded becomes. The provost here (according to a list from 1523) holds the secular power in the parish and is the superior of the dean , the treasurer, 25 canons, 18 chaplains, 16 vicars and six choirboys, plus some priests without benefices; A choir of vicars and choirboys usually takes part in the lavishly designed church services, so that up to 22 music-trained voices are available and up to six-part works can be performed. Josquin Desprez worked in this position for 17 years until the end of his life.
- Sixt Dietrich , who has been studying at the University of Freiburg since September 1509 and married a Freiburg bourgeois daughter in 1516, leaves Freiburg due to debts. He went to Konstanz and became a teacher of the choirboys in music and Latin.
- Antonius Divitis is the singer of the court orchestra of the French King Franz I.
- Costanzo Festa , who may have studied with Jean Mouton in Paris , was papal choir singer from 1517 and later director of this choir.
- Heinrich Finck , who left the Württemberg court before 1515, is said to have been involved in setting up a choir at the Schottenkloster in Vienna from 1517 . The composer is named here together with Erasmus Lapicida "archimusicus", who is permanently resident in this monastery. In his Musice active micrologus (Leipzig 1517), the music theorist Andreas Ornitoparchus places Finck as the only German master among the most important Franco-Flemish composers of his time.
- The chronicler and music theorist Heinrich Glarean stayed in Paris from 1517 to 1522 during his studies , where he met Jean Mouton .
- Heinrich Isaac , who fell ill in the fall of 1516 and wrote his third will in December, died on March 26, 1517. He was buried the following day, and a mass was performed at the request of his childless widow Bartolomea.
- Jacotin Le Bel , who first tried to become a member of the French court orchestra in 1516, worked from 1516 to 1520 as a singer in the private chapel of Pope Leo X in Rome .
- Georg Liban , in 1511 Krakow of the academic degree Magister has acquired, gives lectures at the university and is about 1506 to 1528 at the School of St. Mary's Church as Kantor worked. He was first cantor here, has been rector since 1514 and teaches Latin prosody , Greek and music.
- Jean l'Héritier works for Pope Leo X in Rome .
- Johannes Lupi is a choirboy at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in his hometown of Cambrai and is thus receiving training at one of the most important ecclesiastical music centers of the time.
- Jean Mouton is probably - like Antonius Divitis - still a member of Franz I's court orchestra .
- Anton Musa , who studied in Erfurt in 1506 and obtained his baccalaureate here in 1507 , stayed in Erfurt again from 1514 and received his master's degree here in 1517 .
- Marbrianus de Orto , who has been premier chapelain of the court chapel of the regent Margaret of Austria since 1510 and of the Duke of the Burgundian Netherlands Charles (later Emperor Charles V ) in Brussels since 1510 , alternates in this office with Anthoine de Berghes until 1517. This change is related to residency obligations at other churches, after he worked as a canon at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Antwerp (Church of Our Lady) from 1510 and in the same position at Saint-Gudule in Brussels from 1513. During Emperor Charles V's trip to Spain in 1517, de Orto evidently came from a certain Cr. van Stappen represented.
- In 1517, at the age of 22, Leonhard Paminger came to the Augustinian Canons' Monastery of St. Nikola near Passau , probably as a school assistant. He remains in the service of the monastery until his death .
- Francisco de Peñalosa , who was a member of the royal Spanish chapel, was appointed to the papal chapel in Rome by Pope Leo X in late summer 1517 , again as a singer. Peñalosa holds this office at least until the death of Leo X in 1521; according to other sources even until 1523.
- Matteo Rampollini worked from 1515 to 1520 as a singer at the Basilica di San Lorenzo church in Florence in the service of the Medici family .
- Pierre de la Rue has lived in Kortrijk since June 1516 , has a house there and is a local canon .
- Konrad Rupff , who is now court conductor of Altenburg-Weimar, appoints Johann Walter, who also comes from Kahla, to be the bassist of the Saxon court orchestra in 1517 .
- Ludwig Senfl is presumably also responsible as a composer for the musical arrangement of the liturgical ceremonies and other celebrations in the court chapel of King Maximilian I after the death of Heinrich Isaac (1517) at the latest . Although he is never appointed as Isaac's official successor, he tries several times (in vain) to assert his money claims assured by Maximilian I.
- Claudin de Sermisy works as a clergyman in the Diocese of Noyon and - like Antonius Divitis and Jean Mouton - as a singer in the court orchestra of King Francis I of France. In a list of 34 royal band singers who were employed from October 1, 1517 to September 30, 1518, Sermisy's name immediately follows that of Jean Mouton.
- Gaspar van Weerbeke , who seems to have gone to Germany towards the end of his life, is recorded as a canon on November 1, 1517 in the files of the Church of Sancta Maria ad Gradus in Mainz . He died soon afterwards in an unknown place.
- Adrian Willaert , who was appointed to the service of Cardinal Ippolito I. d'Este from Milan on July 8, 1515 , traveled with him and his other entourage to Hungary in October 1517 and returned to Ferrara in August 1519 .
Performances
- Probably in the period 1450-1460 around Friedberg resulting Hessian Christmas game has its first known performance in Alsfeld . Formally it is the "most scenic and liturgically least bound" game of its kind, as it consists of 870 verses. These are written in both early New High German and Latin, with the passages written in Latin consisting of stage directions and chants.
Instrumental music
organ
- Andrea Antico - Animoso mio desire : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Vocal music
Spiritually
- Heinrich Isaac - Motet Quid retribuam tibi, Leo to three voices (1510/1517; thanks to Pope Leo X.)
- Pierre Moulu - Motet Mater floreat florescat
Worldly
- Andrea Antico - Canzoni sonetti strambotti et frottole, Book 3 : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Peter Schöffer - 36 songs : sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Publications
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Sebastian von Felsztyn
- Opusculum musice compilatum noviter (Krakow)
- Opusculum musice mensuralis (Krakow)
- Andreas Ornitoparchus - Musicae activae micrologus : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Georg Rhau - Enchiridion utriusque musicae practicae : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 17 : Antonio Scandello , Italian composer and conductor († 1580 )
- March 22nd : Gioseffo Zarlino , Italian conductor, music theorist and composer († 1590 )
- October 28 : Jobst von Brandt , German nobleman of the Brandt family and composer († 1570 )
- November: Johann Zanger the Elder , German music theorist, lawyer and Lutheran theologian († 1587 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Pere Alberc i Vila , Catalan composer, organist and organ builder († 1582 )
Died
Date of death secured
- March 26 : Heinrich Isaac , Flemish composer (* around 1450 )
- May 21 : Bernhart Lachaman the Elder , bell founder from Heilbronn
Exact date of death unknown
- Oswald Hilliger , German bell founder (* around 1450 )
Died after 1517
- Gaspar van Weerbeke , Franco-Flemish composer and singer (* around 1445 )
