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{{Short description|Late 15th-century German composer and music theorist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} '''Adam of Fulda''' (c. 1445 – 1505)<ref name="Harvard Bio">{{cite book|editor-last=Randel|editor-first=Don Michael|title=The Harvard biographical dictionary of music|year=1996|publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press|location=Cambridge, Mass.|isbn=0-674-37299-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand/page/4 4]|chapter=Adam von Fulda|chapter-url-access=registration|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand/page/4}}</ref> was a German composer and music theorist of the second half of the 15th century. He was born in [[Fulda]] and died in [[Wittenberg]]. In [[Heinrich Glarean]]'s ''Dodecachordon'' he is described as ''Francum Germanum'', i.e., of German origin. Adam of Fulda calls himself at times ''musicus ducalis'' (musician of the Court). He also mentions [[Guillaume Dufay]] (1400–1474) as his contemporary. ==Biography== Adam of Fulda was born approximately 1445. He was educated at the [[Benedictine]] [[Monastery]] at [[Vornbach Abbey]], where he wrote his ''De musica''. After leaving the monastery, he was a lecturer at the [[University of Halle-Wittenberg|Wittenberg University]] in [[Torgau]], where he was one of the scholars involved with [[Renaissance humanism]]. From 1490 he was choir director. ==Writings== Three writings of his are known. ''De musica'' is a four-part manuscript written in [[Strasbourg]], dated 4 November 1490. It deals in 7 chapters with an explication, invention and praise of music; in 21 chapters with the human hand, the [[chant]], the voice, the [[clef]]s, the [[mutation]] and the [[key (music)|key]]s; in 13 chapters with [[Mensural notation| mensural]] music and in 8 chapters with proportions and consonances. He wrote "Ein ser andechtig Cristenlich Buchleī aus hailigē schrifften vnd Lerern von Adam von Fulda in teutsch reymenn gesetzt" (A very pious and Christian booklet from the Holy writings and studies by Adam of Fulda set in German rhymes), published in Wittenberg in 1512 (reprinted, Berlin, 1914). Fulda began another work which was to be a history of Saxony. It was completed by [[Johannes Trithemius]] after Adam's death in 1514 as ''Annales Hirsaugiensis''.<ref name=Nie>[[Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller]], "Adam von Fulda," ''Oxford Music Online'' retrieved 31 October 2011.</ref> ==Musical works== Most of Adam's musical works are liturgical settings or secular songs. He wrote one mass, and several liturgical works. Niemöller lists 3 secular songs.<ref name=Nie/> ==Recordings of works by Adam of Fulda== ''Ach hülf mich leid'' and other works by Adam of Fulda have been recorded by the German [[Renaissance]]-music vocal group "[[Stimmwerck]]". ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==References== *''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' – [https://web.archive.org/web/20050311083350/http://mdz2.bib-bvb.de/~adb/ online version] ==External links== *{{ChoralWiki}} * {{IMSLP|id=Adam von Fulda}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Adam of Fulda}} [[Category:1440s births]] [[Category:1505 deaths]] [[Category:German male classical composers]] [[Category:German music theorists]] [[Category:Musicians from Hesse]] [[Category:People from Fulda]] [[Category:15th-century German composers]]
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