Sixt Dietrich

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Sixt Dietrich (Xistus Theodericus) (* around 1494 in Augsburg ; † October 21, 1548 in St. Gallen ) was a German composer.

Life

Laudate Dominum - Canon by Sixt Dietrich; published by Sigmund Salminger (1547)

Sixtus had been a choirboy at the cathedral choir in Konstanz (Kostnitz) since 1504 at the latest, where he was released on August 21, 1508 at his own request. On September 23, 1509 he went to the University of Freiburg , where he made friends with Bonifacius Amerbach . There he married a Freiburg bourgeois daughter († 1519) in 1516 and fled from there to Constance because he was in debt . There he became the teacher of the choirboys in music and Latin and was ordained a deacon in 1519 .

Thereupon he received on April 30, 1520 benefices at the Minster in Konstanz, and another 1522 when he received his Primiz . When the Reformation was carried out in Constance in 1527 , he lost his income there and got by with odd jobs. He married again, had several children, traveled to Matthäus Zell in Strasbourg, to Amerbach in Basel and Simon Grynaeus .

In 1534 he wrote a funeral motet and on December 21, 1540 he went to the University of Wittenberg , where he gave lectures on music at the philosophical faculty. In mid-1541 he returned to Konstanz, went back to Wittenberg in 1544 and, in addition to his lectures, also supervised the printing of his hymns by Georg Rhau , who printed many of his works for worship. After the Wittenberg surrender he left Wittenberg again and stayed in Constance. From there he had to flee to St. Gallen two months before his death before Charles V took Constance , where he died.

Dietrich was considered one that composers the Dutch polyphony ( polyphony ) in the early Protestant music worship transpose. His compositions were used by both Catholics and Lutherans.

Works (selection)

  • 1537 Magnificat octo tonorum
  • 1538 Qui habitat in adiutorium Altissimi
  • 1544 Novum opus musicum hymns in four-part movements and a Te Deum
  • 1544 "Out of great need I cry to you"
  • 1544 "It is salvation and we come here"
  • 1545 "Christ is risen"

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SURNAME Dietrich, Sixt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theodericus, Xistus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1494
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1548
Place of death St. Gallen