Music year 1518
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Overview of the music years
Further events
| Music year 1518 | |
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 Franchinus Gaffurius publishes his treatise De harmonia musicorum instrumentorum ("On the harmony of musical instruments"). One illustration in the book shows Gaffurius as a teacher with twelve students. The banner reads Harmonia est discordia concors (“Harmony is unanimous disagreement”). The circle symbolizes the connection between music and geometry. Inscription : Franchinus Gafurius Laudensis. Tria de musicis volumes. Theoricam ac practicam et harmoniam instrumentorum accuratissime conscripsit ("Franchinus Gaffurius from Lodi. Three books on music. He presented the theory as well as the practice and the harmony of the instruments with the greatest care"). |
Events
- Petrus Alamire stayed several times at the court of Elector Friedrich the Wise of Saxony-Wittenberg on behalf of the Burgundian-Habsburg court from 1518 to 1519 . The aim is to win the elector's vote for the election of Charles V as emperor. This is how some splendid choir books were given to the Saxon court as "promotional gifts".
- 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.
- 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 .
- Hans Buchner is the cathedral organist at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Constance .
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. He died there on August 16, 1518. He was buried in the church and honored with an unusually elaborate poem and epitaph .
- 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 lives in Konstanz and teaches 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 , has been papal choir singer since 1517 and later becomes director of this choir.
- Franchinus Gaffurius publishes his treatise De harmonia musicorum instrumentorum ("On the harmony of musical instruments").
- The chronicler and music theorist Heinrich Glarean stayed in Paris from 1517 to 1522 during his studies , where he met Jean Mouton .
- Lupus Hellinck, as a permanent member of the papal household, submitted a petition on April 1, 1518 in Rome and applied for ordination. On April 12th he received permission from the Curia to leave Rome to attend to personal affairs.
- Nikolaus Herman comes to the Latin School in St. Joachimsthal as a cantor and teacher .
- Hans Kugelmann was employed in the court chapel of Emperor Maximilian I from 1518 .
- 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.
- 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 l'Héritier works for Pope Leo X in Rome .
- The Medici Code is completed. It is a music book compiled for Pope Leo X , the second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent of the Medici family. The codex contains 53 motets by 21 composers, including motets by Jean Mouton , Andreas de Silva, Johannes de la Fage, Josquin Desprez , Pierrequin de Thérache, Adrian Willaert and Costanzo Festa .
- Jean Mouton is probably - like Antonius Divitis - a member of Franz I's court orchestra . At a later, not exactly known time Mouton gets a bepfründetes canonicate at the collegiate Saint-Quentin , perhaps in the footsteps of his late colleague 1518 LOYSET COMPÈRE .
- Andreas Ornitoparchus , who studied at the University of Rostock in 1512 , in Tübingen in 1515 , in Wittenberg and Leipzig in 1516 , is enrolled at the University of Greifswald .
- Marbrianus de Orto is the premier chapelain of the court chapel of the Duke of the Burgundian Netherlands Charles (later Emperor Charles V ) in Brussels .
- Francisco de Peñalosa , who was a member of the Spanish Royal Chapel, has been a singer in the Papal Chapel of Pope Leo X in Rome since the late summer of 1517 . 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 .
- In the summer semester of 1518 Georg Rhau switched from the University of Wittenberg to the University of Leipzig , where he was accepted as an assessor at the philosophical faculty on September 18, 1518. In addition, from August 1518 he was active as Thomaskantor in Leipzig .
- Pierre de la Rue . who has lived in Kortrijk as a local canon since June 1516 , dies on November 20, 1518 and is buried here in the cemetery of Onze Liewe Vrouwkerk . His grave and the tomb with the Latin inscription have not survived, but this inscription has been handed down in several copies and celebrates him as a master of sacred music: "In tumulo Petrus de Vico conditor isto, nobile cui nomen musica sacra dedit".
- Ludwig Senfl has probably been responsible as a composer for the musical arrangement of the liturgical ceremonies and other celebrations in the court chapel of King Maximilian I at the latest since the death of Heinrich Isaac (1517) . 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.
- 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 .
Publications
- Franchinus Gaffurius - De harmonia musicorum instrumentorum (Milan)
- Medici Code
Born
Exact date of birth unknown
- Oswald Hilliger (II.) , German gun and bell caster († 1546 )
Born around 1518
- Ihan Gero , Franco-Flemish composer († 1553 )
- Francesco Londariti , Greek-Venetian singer and composer († probably 1572 )
Died
Date of death secured
- August 16 : LOYSET COMPÈRE , Flemish composer, singer and clerics (* around 1440 / 1445 )
- November 20 : Pierre de la Rue , Franco-Flemish composer, singer, cleric (* between 1460 and 1470)
