See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
MARTIN See also:AGRICOLA (c. 1500-1556)
, See also:German musician, was See also:born about 1500 in See also:Lower See also:Silesia
.
His German name was Sohror Sore
.
From 1524 till his See also:death he lived at See also:Magdeburg, where he occupied the See also:post of teacher or cantor in the See also:Protestant school
.
The senator and See also:music-printer Rhau, of See also:Wittenberg, was a See also:close friend of See also:Agricola, whose theoretical See also:works, providing valuable material concerning the See also:change from the old to the new See also:system of notation, he published
.
Agricola was also the first to harmonize in four parts See also:Luther's See also:chorale, See also:Bin' feste See also:Burg
.
Four other Agricolasl are known as composers between the end of the 15th See also:century and the See also:middle of the 17th
.
In the 18th century we find See also:Burney, in the course of his tour in See also:Germany (1772), much impressed by JOHANN See also:FRIEDRICH AGRICOLA (1720-1774), See also:court composer and director of the royal See also:chapel to See also:Frederick the See also:Great
.
This Agricola was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Bach, and a See also:fine organist and See also:clever writer on music, especially on operatic See also:style, the problems of which were beginning to be raised by See also:French writers and composers in preparation for the See also:work of See also:Gluck
.
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