Peter Tritonius

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Prima Facifs , Melopoiae, 1507

Petrus Tritonius Athesinus (* 1465 in Bozen ; † approx. 1525 probably in Hall in Tirol ; latinized by Peter Treybenreif / Treibreiff / Trittenraiff; Athesinus, born in Etschland ) was a Tyrolean schoolmaster, composer and music teacher . His four-part Horace setting Melopoiae (1507) is considered to be the founding work of the genre of the Humanistenoden .

Life

Petrus Tritonius began his studies at the University of Vienna in 1486 . During a trip to Italy he met his future teacher and future friend, the humanist Conrad Celtis , in Padua and later followed him to Ingolstadt, where he studied with him from 1497 to 1499, and took on the name Petrus Tritonius. From 1500 to 1502 he worked as a Latin teacher at the cathedral school in Brixen (Tyrol). After his doctorate at the University of Padua in 1502 (he described himself in a letter as a Magister from the University of Padua), Celtis called him back to Vienna as a teacher (probably to the Collegium poetarum et mathematicorum ). Until Celtis' death in 1508 he was a member of his Viennese humanist group. Then he returned to Bolzano, where he was director of the Latin school until 1512. He later taught in Hall (1513–1519 and 1524/1525) and in Schwaz am Inn (1519–1524), where he was in close contact with his student and later Homer translator Simon Schaidenreisser (called Minervius). In 1525 the plague probably ended his life.

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At the suggestion of Celtis, Petrus Tritonius set a selection of Horazodes to music in four-part homorhythmic in the "note against note" principle ( Discantus ), whereby he strictly adhered to the classical meters of Horace in the musical meters . The work published by Erhard Oeglin in Augsburg in 1507 with the title Melopoiae sive harmoniae tetracenticae super XXII genera carminum Heroicorum Elegiacorum Lyricorum et ecclesiasticorum hymnorum contains 22 Latin meters , 19 of them with texts by Horace, one each for Catullus , Martial and Ovid . Celtis had his students sing the Horazodes set to music by Tritonius at the end of the lecture in order to teach them the lengths of the meters and the accentuation.

The first edition of the work is considered to be the first known German-language sheet music printing with movable types (type double printing in mensural notation ). The Melopoiae were considered exemplary and influenced German composers of the 16th century such as Paul Hofhaimer and Ludwig Senfl . Minervius persuaded Senfl, the most important German composer at the time, to recompose the Odes in 1534, in which Senfl was based on Tritonius. In the same year Minervius wrote that, to the best of his knowledge, Tritonius was the first to attempt to set ancient meters to music. Hans Judenküng (1445–1526) rewrote some of the odes in tablature . His German church hymn book Hymnarius , printed in 1524, is the oldest of its kind. It contains the texts of 131 songs. Above the lines of text there are four empty staves on which the melodies could be written.

Works

  • Melopoiae
    • 1st ed., Oeglin , Augsburg 1507, as: Melopoiae sive harmoniae tetracenticae super XXII genera carminum Heroicorum Elegiacorum Lyricorum et ecclesiasticorum hymnorum per Petrum Tritonium et alios doctos sodalitatis littereltisariae nostrae regul impressions. Folio , RISM A / I / 8 T 1249.
    • 2nd edition, Augsburg 1507, as: Harmonie Petri Tritonii super odis Horatii Flacci. Quart.
    • 3rd edition, Egenolf, Frankfurt 1532, posthumously, as: Odarum Horatii Concentus cum quibusdam aliis carminum generibus ... Octav.
    • 4th edition, Egenolf Frankfurt 1551, posthumously, as: Geminae undeviginti odarum Horatii melodiae quatuor vocibus probè adornatæ ...
  • About the life and laughter of Democriti, entertaining and almost useful to read. 1521.
  • Hymnarius: Germanized by the ganntz Jar, according to the usual white and kind of synngen, so every hymn is made. Siegmundslust Castle near Schwaz 1524, "Hymnarius von Sigmundslust", RISM B / VIII / 1

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SURNAME Tritonius, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petrus Tritonius Athesinus; Peter Treybenreif; Peter Treibreiff; Peter Treibreif; Peter Treybenreiff; Peter Traibenreif; Peter Treybenraiff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Renaissance composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1465
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano
DATE OF DEATH 1525
Place of death Hall in Tirol