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Martin Agricola
(6 January 1486 – 10 June 1556) was a German
composer
of
Renaissance music
and a
music theorist
.
[1]
[a]
Biography
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Agricola was born in
?wiebodzin
, a town in Western
Poland
, and took the name Agricola later in life, a common practice among Lutherans often meant to emphasize humble, peasant origins.
[2]
[3]
From 1524 until his death, he lived in the German city of
Magdeburg
, where he was a teacher or cantor in the
Protestant
school.
Georg Rhau
, a publisher and senator in
Wittenberg
, was Agricola's close friend and publisher.
Agricola's theoretical writing was valuable in expounding the change from the old to the new system of
musical notation
.
His
Musica instrumentalis deudsch
(English:
German Instrumental Music
), published in 1528, 1530, 1532 and 1542, and then heavily revised in 1545, was one of the most important early works in
organology
and on the
elements of music
.
[5]
Agricola was the first to
harmonize
in
four parts
Martin Luther
's famous
chorale
, "
Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
" (English: "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God".
Notes
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Four other Agricolas (
Alexander
, died 1506; Johann, flor. 1600; Wolfgang Christoph, flor. 1630; and
Georg Ludwig
, 1643?1676) are known as composers between the end of the 15th century and the middle of the 17th.
In the 18th century
Charles Burney
, in the course of his tour in Germany (1772), was much impressed by
Johann Friedrich Agricola
(1720?1774), court composer and director of the royal chapel to Frederick the Great (
Chisholm 1911
).
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His German name was
Sohr
or
Sore
(
Chisholm 1911
)
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Hettrick, William E. (1994).
The 'Musica Instrumentalis Deudsch' of Martin Agricola: A Treatise on Musical Instruments
. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. xiii.
- ^
Hollaway, William W. (1972).
Martin Agricola's Musica Instrumentalis Deudsch: A Translation
. Denton: North Texas State University. p. iii.
- ^
Hettrick, William E. (1994).
The 'Musica Instrumentalis Deudsch' of Martin Agricola: A Treatise on Musical Instruments
. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. xiv.
References
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- Attribution
Further reading
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