- Martin Agricola
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- See Agricola for several other people of the same name.
Martin Agricola (6 January 1486 – 10 June 1556) was a German composer of Renaissance music and a music theorist.
He was born in Schwiebus in Lower Silesia.[1] His German name was Sohr or Sore.
From 1524 until his death he lived at Magdeburg, where he occupied the post of teacher or cantor in the Protestant school. The senator and music-printer Rhau, of Wittenberg, was a close friend of Agricola, whose theoretical works, providing valuable material concerning the change from the old to the new system of notation, he published.
Among Agricola's other theoretical works is Musica instrumentalis deudsch (1529), a study of musical instruments, and one of the most important works in early organology; and one of the earliest books on the Rudiments of music.
Agricola was also the first to harmonize in four parts Martin Luther's chorale, Ein feste Burg.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.- Classical Composers Database
- ^ Lutheran Cyclopedia entry on Agricola, Martin.
External links
- Free scores by Martin Agricola at the International Music Score Library Project
- Free scores by Martin Agricola in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
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