Mace
Muskatblut (also Muskatplüt or Konrad Muskatblut ; * perhaps around 1390 ; † after 1438 ) was a German poet and the first representative of the master song .
Life
In the tradition of song poetry , Muscat was together with the younger Michael Beheim the last professional poet of his time. He lived in the first half of the 15th century and probably came from Eastern Franconia.
Since appearances by him in Nördlingen , Nuremberg and Regensburg are attested, it can be assumed that the mace mainly lived in southern Germany. For many years he also worked for the court in Mainz , since in 1424 in Nördlingen he was referred to as "the von Meincz sprecher" and in 1441 in Nuremberg as "the von Meincz varender man" .
His oldest song (No. 70) can be dated exactly to 1415, as the nutmeg is the theme of the Council of Constance . Between 1420 and 1431 he took part in the Hussite Wars and wrote a homage poem for King Albrecht II's coronation in 1438.
He wrote Minne poems in the tradition of the Minnesang and allegorical-sacred songs, including songs from Mary typical of the early days of the Mastersong. With his own author's handwriting (collections of texts by a single poet), Muscat ensured the continued existence of his work (today in the Cologne City Archives).
Work edition
- Eberhard von Groote (Ed.): Songs Muscat's , Cologne 1852 ( digitized version ); Microfiche edition (reprint): Saur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-598-50998-7
literature
- Karl Bartsch : Nutmeg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 99-101.
- Siegfried Junge: Studies on the life and dialect of the Meistersinger Muscat . Dissertation, University of Greifswald, 1932
- Frieder Schanze: mace. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 637 f. ( Digitized version ).
- In: Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea world of music - The composers - A lexicon in five volumes . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 134/135, volume 4 .
- Gerd Dicke: A nutmeg as a hymn? On the range of uses of a spiritual masterly song in the context of the sermon . In: Mary in hymn and sequence. Interdisciplinary Medieval Perspectives. Ed. V. EVA ROTHENBERGER u. LYDIA WEGENER. Berlin, Boston 2017 (liturgy and vernacular 1), pp. 233–264.
Web links
- Literature by and about mace in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nutmeg in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mace |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nutmeg; Nutmeg; Nutmeg, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1390 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1438 |