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AGRICOLA, MARTIN (c. 1500-1556)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 387 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AGRICOLA, MARTIN (c. 1500-1556) , German musician, was born about 1500 in Lower Silesia. His German name was Sohror Sore. From 1524 till 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. Agricola was also the first to harmonize in four parts Luther's
chorale
 , Bin' feste Burg.
Four other Agricolasl are known as composers between the end of the 15th
century
  and the middle of the 17th.
In the 18th
century
  we find
Burney
 , in the course of his tour in Germany (1772), much impressed by JOHANN
FRIEDRICH
  AGRICOLA (1720-1774),
court
  composer and director of the royal chapel to Frederick the
Great
 . This Agricola was a pupil of Bach, and a fine organist and clever writer on music, especially on operatic style, the problems of which were beginning to be raised by French writers and composers in preparation for the
work
  of Gluck.


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