Petrus de Drusina

Petrus de Drusina (Polish today Piotr z Drużna ; * around 1560; † 1611 ) was an organist and composer in Danzig and Elbing .

Life

Peter was a son or other relative of the lutenist Benedictus de Drusina from the area around Elbing. He worked as an organist in the St. Mary's Church (and the St. Barbara Church?) In Gdansk. In 1605 he was cantor at the Marienkirche in Elbing.

Some organ compositions and choral music, mostly preludes and intabulations of motets, have been preserved by Petrus de Drusina. They are recorded in the Oliva tablature , some pieces are kept in the library of the Marienkirche in Gdańsk.

literature

Josef Zuth : Handbook of the lute and guitar. Vienna 1926. Reprint Hildesheim 2003. P. 84. ( limited preview in Google book search)
Christian Krollmann (Ed.): Old Prussian Biography . Volume I. Abegg - Malten . Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1941. (Reprint Marburg 1974). P. 152.
Katarzyna Morawska: Renesans (= Historia muzyki polskiej. Tom 2) . Sutkowski Edition 1994, ISBN 978-83-900790-2-8 . P. 289.

Individual evidence

^ Cover sheet of a wedding music in Elbing from 1605 occasional music in the Baltic Sea area
^ Organ pieces concert organist
↑ Wolfgang Adam, Siegrid Westphal (ed.): Handbook of cultural centers of the early modern period: Cities and residences in the old German-speaking area , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-020703-3 . P. 489.

personal data
SURNAME	Drusina, Petrus de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Piotr z Drużna (Polish modern spelling); Piotr Drusiński (Polish modern translation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Organist and composer in Gdansk and Elblag
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1560
DATE OF DEATH	1611

[1] Cover sheet of a wedding music in Elbing from 1605 occasional music in the Baltic Sea area

[2] Organ pieces concert organist

[3] Wolfgang Adam, Siegrid Westphal (ed.): Handbook of cultural centers of the early modern period: Cities and residences in the old German-speaking area , Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-020703-3 . P. 489.