Wolff Heckel

Your heart has committed itself to dear : Excerpt from Lautten book by Wolff Heckel. Strasbourg 1556.

Wolff Heckel (* around 1515 in Munich ; † around 1562) was a German lutenist and composer .

Life

He spent a large part of his life in Strasbourg , where he worked as a lutenist and composer. There he acquired a profound knowledge of French songs and Italian dance forms. His most important work, the Lautten Buch , was also written in Strasbourg . It is a collection of over a hundred pieces for two lutes (treble and tenor lute) and is notated in German lute tablature . It contains five parts, Teütsche stuck , Latin stuck , Frantzoesische stuck or lieder , Itallianische stuck or lieder as well as Allerley Tentz exposed on Teütsch and is one of the important early printed works for Renaissance lute . The collection first appeared in print in 1556 by Urban Wyß in Strasbourg, a second edition with minor changes followed in 1562 by Christian Müller. Heckel is assigned an important role in the persistence of the Passamezzo in German tablatures, which was previously only taken into account to a greater extent by Hans Gerle and Hans Jakob Wecker.

Works

• Lautten book of many beautiful and lovely pieces with two sounds to smash seeds (...) . Strasbourg 1556.

literature

• Robert Eitner :  Heckel, Wolff . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 205 f.
• Heckel, Wolff. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . 2nd Edition. Volume 11, p. 305.
• Heckel, Wolff. In: Music in the past and present . Volume 8, pp. 1140-1141.

Web links

• Wolff Heckel in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Lautten book in the International Music Score Library Project