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MARTIN AGRICOLA (c. 1500-1556)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 387 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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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