Music year 1545

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Music year 1545
Picture by the Italian music theorist and composer Pietro Aaron in his book Lucidario in musica di alcune opinione antiche e modern , published in Venice in 1545, the year the musician died.

Events

Benedictus Appenzeller , who has been a singer at the Habsburg court of the regent Maria of Hungary in Brussels since 1536 and head of the choirboys ( maître des enfants ) since 1537 , participated in the services of the Marian Brotherhood in 's-Hertogenbosch in the summer of 1545 together with his choirboys .
Jakob Arcadelt has been the singer of the Capella Sistina in Rome since December 30, 1540 , where he remains (with interruptions) until June 1551. The Pope awarded him two benefices on April 22, 1545 in the city of Liège , the seat of his home diocese, to St. Barthélemy and St. Pierre.

Pietro Aron is a monk in a Kreuzherrenkloster near Bergamo . In 1545 he witnessed the publication of his book Lucidario in musica di alcune opinione antiche e modern , but no longer that of the undated book Compendiolo di molti dubbi, segreti, et sentenze intorno al canto fermo et figurato .

Pierre Attaingnant , who invented a variant of sheet music printing around 1527/1528 that allowed printing in one operation, published more than 50 collections of chansons and some “dance books” between 1528 and 1552.

Antoine Barbé has - according to the files of the Cathedral of Antwerp - from 1527 to 1562 the post of Kapellmeister held.

Leonardo Barré , a pupil of Adrian Willaert in Venice , has been a singer in the papal chapel in Rome since 1537 . He retained this position until 1555.

Eustorg de Beaulieu , who at the Academy of Lausanne Theology studied and 1540 before the consistory has passed his examination, is pastor in Thierrens and Moudon in the canton of Vaud .

Loys Bourgeois was cantor and teacher at the Saint-Pierre Cathedral in Geneva and in the municipal parish of Saint-Gervais from 1545 at the latest .

Arnold von Bruck , who had been Kapellmeister of the Austrian regent Archduke Ferdinand (who later became King and Emperor Ferdinand I ) in Vienna since the second half of 1527, was retired from the imperial court at the end of 1545. He then stayed in Vienna for some time and was a chaplain at one of the altars in St. Stephen's Cathedral ; He also composes some pieces here for the cathedral choir .

Joan Brudieu is the conductor of the cathedral in La Seu d'Urgell . He retained this position - with interruptions - until shortly before his death in 1591.

Jakob Buus has been the organist of the 2nd organ of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice since July 15, 1541 .

Cornelius Canis has succeeded Thomas Crécquillon as court conductor of the Grande Chapelle of Emperor Charles V in Madrid since June 1542 . Canis' growing reputation as a composer was followed by prominent publications of his works.

Pierre Certon has worked at Notre-Dame in Paris since 1529 and has been director of the boys' choir here since 1542.

Jacobus Clemens non Papa , who is the priest of St. Donatian's Cathedral in Bruges and who was appointed on March 26, 1544 on a trial basis as vice-conductor (succentor), held this office until June 1545. His nickname "non Papa", which appeared for the first time in 1542 in a manuscript collection of the Dutch merchant Zeghere de Male, can be found from 1545 on the title pages of the collections of his works at the Antwerp publisher Tielman Susato .

Adrianus Petit Coclico enrolled in September 1545 to study at the University of Wittenberg and also gave music lessons here.

Francesco Corteccia has been in the service of the de 'Medici family since 1539 and holds the position of Kapellmeister at the court of Duke Cosimo I.

Thomas Crécquillon has been “maistre de la chapelle” at the court of Emperor Charles V since 1540. The court orchestra also accompanies the emperor on his travels. Stays in Germany in 1545 are documented. His stays may have contributed to the relatively wide distribution of his works.

Wolfgang Dachstein has been organist at the Strasbourg Cathedral since 1541 and at the same time music teacher at the grammar school there. He complies with the Augsburg Interim and thus remains in his office. In 1545 his adaptation of the 137th psalm “ An Wasserflüssen Babylon ” appears in Martin Luther's “Babstschem Gesangbuch”. The hymn was first published in the "Teutschen Kirchenampt 1525".

Ghiselin Danckerts has been a singer in the papal chapel in Rome since 1538 . He will hold this office until 1565.

Jean De Latre since November 1544 in the wake of Adam Lauri succentor at the Church of St. Martin in Liege . He led the church chapel with skill and success for almost 20 years. De Latre has also been the conductor of the Liege Prince-Bishop George of Austria , a humanist -minded music lover, since 1544 . Here he benefited from important contacts with other artists such as Lambert Lombard (1506–1566) and Franciscus Florius (1516–1570) and with other important people in the vicinity of the bishop.

Sixt Dietrich has lived in Wittenberg again since 1544 and, in addition to his lectures, also oversees the printing of his hymns by Georg Rhau , who prints many of his works for worship.

Nicolao Dorati has been working in the town band of Lucca since 1543 , initially as a trombonist and from 1557 as Kapellmeister for more than twenty years.

Ludovicus Episcopius worked from October 19, 1545 as a tinder at the collegiate church of St. Servatius in Maastricht . He gets more Benefizi s and is a member of the brotherhood of chaplains as one of scriptores chori . He retained this position until 1566.

Composition by Costanzo Festa

Constanzo Festa , who died in Rome on April 10, 1545, leaving behind a book 3-voice madrigals, a 4-voice Magnificat , 8-voice litany s and many motets and madrigals in anthologies.

Wolfgang Figulus probably attended school in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1540 and until 1545 . Around 1545 he became cantor in Lübben .

Hermann Finck enrolled as a student at the University of Wittenberg in 1545 , where he taught singing and instrumental music from 1554.

Georg Forster , who received his doctorate in medicine in Tübingen on September 27, 1544, initially worked as a "common town doctor" from the beginning of 1545 to Easter 1547 in his hometown of Amberg ; During this time he married Sabine Portner from Theuern near Amberg.

In 1545 Guillaume Franc became cantor at the Lausanne Cathedral and teacher at the Lausanne Academy .

The compositions handed down by Henry Fresneau allow the conclusion that he worked in Lyon from 1538 until 1554 .

Antonio Gardano , who has lived in Venice since 1532 and founded a music publisher and printer there, published around 450 publications between 1538 and 1569, mainly madrigals and sacred music. Of the 388 remaining prints, only two are non-musical.

Nicolas Gombert is a canon in Tournai, where he has held an ecclesiastical sinecure since 1534 .

Ten-year-old Mikołaj Gomółka became aware of King Sigismund II. August of Poland and took him to his court in 1545.

Sigmund Hemmel has been a tenor in the Stuttgart court orchestra of Duke Ulrich von Württemberg since 1544 .

Nikolaus Herman is a cantor and teacher at the Latin school in St. Joachimsthal . Here he works with Johannes Mathesius , who is the rector of the school from 1532 and pastor from 1540.

Gheerkin de Hondt has been the singing master of the Marienbruderschaft ( Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap ) in 's-Hertogenbosch since December 31, 1539 .

Clément Janequin has been music director of Angers Cathedral since 1534 .

Erasmus Lapicida that around the year 1521 by the Habsburg Archduke I. Ferdinand (reign as Archduke 1521-1531) on Schottenkloster in Vienna a stipend was awarded, lives there, the remaining 26 years of his life. The composer, who asked Ferdinand I in 1544 for a grace payment of 15 kreuzers because of his old age, was granted this. It was paid regularly until his death in 1547.

Orlando di Lasso , who left his hometown in the fall of 1544 in the service of Ferrante I Gonzaga , viceroy of Sicily and general of Emperor Charles V and traveled with him via Fontainebleau to Mantua and Genoa , arrives on November 1, 1545 in Palermo in Sicily. Here Orlando gains access to the circles of the local nobility. On this and the following trips through Italy he also got to know the folk music there and the improvisation of the Commedia dell'Arte , which inspired him to make his first attempts at composition.

Jacotin Le Bel is a member of the court orchestra of the French King Franz I.

In 1545, Pierre de Manchicourt was the conductor and teacher of the choirboys at Tournai Cathedral .

Jachet de Mantua has been the master of the chapel boys and chapel master at the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in Mantua since 1535 at the latest . In Mantua he has a special position through his direct subordination to the cardinal. His fame is also based on numerous publications of his works, with the result that a great number of contemporary authors deal with his work in their writings.

Cristóbal de Morales ended his service as singer of the Sistine Chapel in Rome in 1545 and returned to his Spanish homeland, where he worked as Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Toledo .

Anton Musa has been a pastor in Merseburg since 1544 , where, in addition to the preaching office at Merseburg Cathedral, he also serves in the consistory.

Luis de Narváez has been in the service of Francisco de los Cobos y Molina (1477–1547), Commander of León and Secretary to Emperor Charles V since the 1520s ; He is most likely living in Valladolid with his employer until his death in 1547.

Giovanni Domenico da Nola published a first, four-part madrigal book in 1545 . It includes 29 compositions, 22 of which are based on texts by Petrarch .

Sebastian Ochsenkun has been the lute master at the Palatinate court in Heidelberg since 1544 .

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is responsible for the daily conduct of the choral singing during the celebration of Mass , Vespers and Compline in the Cathedral of San Agapito in his hometown Palestrina . To this end, he signed a contract with the canons of the cathedral on October 28, 1544 . His other duties include playing the organ on festive days and giving musical lessons to canons and choirboys.

Francesco Patavino works as Kapellmeister in Treviso .

Nicolas Payen has worked in the court chapel of Emperor Charles V since 1540 as clerc d'oratoire and chapelain des hautes messes.

Dominique Phinot is - as two documents from the archives of the city of Urbino , dated March 26, 1545 and November 20, 1555, show - employed by Duke Guidobaldo II of Urbino.

Matteo Rampollini is in the service of the Medici in Florence .

Georg Rhau , who settled in Wittenberg as a printer at the end of 1522 , ran a book printing company here until his death. The Georg Rhaus music prints are the most important testimony to the musical views and intentions of the circle around Martin Luther .

Cipriano de Rore most likely stayed in Brescia from 1542 to 1545 and, on occasional trips to Venice , might oversee the printing of his madrigals and motets there. At the same time, he wrote several homage compositions for religious and secular prominent persons, from whom the composer might expect a job.

François Roussel , who possibly came to Rome as a choirboy , has been a musician in the entourage of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese since 1544 .

Pierre Sandrin , who was doyen of the monastery chapter of Saint-Florent-de-Roye in Picardy , has been doyen of the Chapelle Royale since 1543.

Leonhart Schröter attended from 1545 to 1547, the Prince's School in Me Issen .

Claudin de Sermisy is a member of the court orchestra of King Francis I of France. From 1533 the composer worked as sous-maître over all musicians in the royal band; Cardinal François de Tournon , a close confidante of the king, is in charge of the administration . As sous-maître , de Sermisy directs the performances of around 40 adult singers and six choirboys that the royal chapel owned during the 1530s and 1540s; In addition, he is responsible for the well-being of the boys and oversees the chapel's liturgical and musical books. He held this office until about 1553 and shared the title and duties from 1543–1547 with Louis Hérault de Servissas.

Woodcut by Tielman Susato offering one of his works for sale

Tielman Susato , who was granted a three-year printing privilege in Antwerp in 1543 and opened a printing company here, published three volumes of mass compositions between 1543 and 1561, 19 books of motets and 22 chanson books, as well as a series of eleven volumes of Musyck Boexken . The majority of his publications are anthologies with works by several composers. In 1545 he published single prints with works by Josquin Desprez ( Le Septiesme Livre , 1545) and Pierre de Manchicourt ( Le Neufiesme Livre des chansons , 1545). In 1545 he himself published the parody mass “In illo tempore” based on his own motet . Susato has been a member of the Antwerp Town Musicians since 1531; he plays the instruments flute , recorder , Krummhorn , field trumpet and trombone , and perhaps also the evening prayer of the brotherhood accompanied.

Thomas Tallis , who was named “Gentleman of the Chapel Royal ” in 1543 , held this office for the next forty years.

Gérard de Turnhout became a chorister at the Church of Our Lady in Antwerp around 1545 .

Christopher Tye , who studied at Cambridge University and received his doctorate in music there and in Oxford , has been Master of the Choristers at Ely Cathedral since around 1543 and held this position until 1561.

Adrian Willaert has been the cathedral music director of San Marco in Venice since December 12, 1527 . The composer held this post for 35 years until his death; It is only through his work that this position gains its outstanding importance throughout Europe.

Vocal works

Spiritually

Benedictus Appenzeller

Motet Benedic domine domum istam, Augsburg
Motet Corde et animo Christe canamus for five voices, Augsburg
Motet Musae Iovis ter maximi for four voices, Antwerp : sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Motet Peccantem me quotidiae et non penitentem for four voices, Augsburg

Pierre Certon - 31 Psalmes : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project

Sixt Dietrich - Christ has risen

Georg Forster - Motet Timete Dominum for two voices, Wittenberg

Johannes Galliculus - Proprium fair for Christmas with four voices, Wittenberg

Antonio Gardano (Ed.) - Musica quatuor vocum, liber secundus; in this:

Adrian Willaert: Pater noster, Ave Maria : Notes and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project

Gian Domenico del Giovane da Nola - Madrigali to four votes

Damião de Góis - Surge propera amica mea : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project

Nicolas Gombert

Motet In illo tempore intravit Jesus to five voices

Motet Musae Jovis for six parts

Motet In Josquinum a Prato : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project