Wolfgang Christoph Agricola

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Wolfgang Christoph Agricola (* around 1600 , † around 1659 ) was a German baroque composer.

The work of Wolfgang Christoph Agricola is attested in the period from 1637 to 1651. From 1637 he is proven as a Magister in Neustadt an der Saale . Agricola wrote masses and motets.

Works by Wolfgang Christoph Agricola

From 1647 Agricola published the following works in Würzburg:

  • Fasciculus musicalis (1647, eight masses)
  • Fasciculus variarum cantionum (1648, two eight-part motets)
  • Spiritual German song book (only known in an edition from 1700.)

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  • Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (editor): Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Agricola, Wolfgang Christoph. 12th completely revised edition. 1. Personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 13 (first edition: 1882).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data according to GND.
  2. ↑ GND.
  3. ↑ Riemann, 1959.
personal data
SURNAME Agricola, Wolfgang Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1600
DATE OF DEATH around 1659