Gumpelzhaimer, Adam

Gumpelzhaimer, Adam, German composer, writer on music, and teacher; b. Trostberg, Upper Bavaria, 1559; d. Augsburg, Nov. 3, 1625. He studied music with Jodocus Entzenmiiller at the Benedictine cloister of St. Ulrich and St. Afra in Augsburg, and was Kantor and Prazeptor of the school and church of St. Anna there from 1581. He was made a citizen of Augsburg in 1590. He publ. the treatise-textbook Compendium musicae, which went through 13 eds. It included compositions by Gumpelzhaimer as well as by other composers; the canons he wrote for it are particularly noteworthy. O. Mayr ed. Adam Gumpelzhaimer: Ausgewahlte Werke in Denkmaler der Tonkunst in Bayern, XIX, Jg. X/2 (1909).

Works

Works (all publ. in Augsburg): Compendium musicae (1591; 2nd ed., aug., 1595, as Compendium musicae latinogermanicum; 13th ed., 1681; facsimile, Ann Arbor, 1965); (27) Neue teutsche geistliche Lieder…nach Art der welschen Villanellen for 3 Voices (1591; 3rd ed., 1611, as Lustgartlins teutsch und lateinischer geistlicher Lieder erster Theil); (29) Neue teutsche geistliche Lieder nach Art der welschen Canzonen for 4 and 5 Voices (1594; 3rd ed., 1619, as Wirtzgartlins teutsch und lateinischer geistlicher Lieder, erster Theil); Contrapunctus for 4 and 5 Voices (1595); (27) Sacrorum concentuum…liber primus for 8 Voices (1601); Psalmus LI for 8 Voices (1604); Lustgartlins (28) teutsch und lateinischer geistlicher Lieder ander Theil for 3 Voices (1611); (25) Sacrorum concentuum…cum duplici basso ad organorum usum…liber secundus for 8 Voices (1614); Zwai schone Weihenacht Lieder for 4 Voices (1618); Wirtzgartlins (31) teutsch und lateinischer geistlicher Lieder, ander Theil for 4 and 5 Voices (1619); Christliches Weihenacht Gesang for 4 Voices (1620).

Bibliography

O. Mayr, A. G.: Ein Beitrag zur Musikgeschichte der Stadt Augsburg im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert (Augsburg, 1908).

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