Musicus et poeta trilinguis. New Findings about the Life and Work of Jiří Cropatius Teplický
| Pages | 6-49 |
|---|---|
| DOI | 10.37520/muscz.2020.001 |
| Keywords | Printed music, polyphonic settings of the Ordinary, journey to the Holy Land, humanism in music, part books, conversion, Jiří Cropatius, Angelo Gardano |
| Type of Article | Peer-reviewed |
| Citation | VACULÍNOVÁ, Marta a DANĚK, Petr. Musicus et poeta trilinguis. New Findings about the Life and Work of Jiří Cropatius Teplický. Musicalia. Journal of the Czech Museum of Music / Časopis Českého muzea hudby . Prague: National Museum, 2020, 12(1-2), 6-49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/muscz.2020.001. ISSN 1803-7828 (Print), 2533-5634 (Online). Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/mjotcmomaehmh/12-1-2/musicus-et-poeta-trilinguis-new-findings-about-the-life-and-work-of-jiri-cropatius-teplicky |
This joint article by a classical philologist and a musicologist deals with Jiří Cropatius (a figure documented between 1569 and 1580). Until now, he has been known as a composer who achieved what no other Czech had ever done: getting his music printed by Angelo Gardano in Venice. Current research on sources has allowed us to expand greatly our knowledge about Cropatius’s life. In light of new discoveries, Cropatius is now seen as not only a musician, but also an expert on Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, the languages in which he also wrote poetry. We learn more about his life and, in particular, about his journey to the Holy Land. Cropatius’s Masses, issued in print by Gardano in 1578, have not been preserved, but we can get an idea of what kind of composer Cropatius was from two preserved voices from a manuscript of his Mass for five voices now kept at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
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