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Herzlich Lieb Hab Ich Dich, O Herr
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Browse piano sheets by Matthias Gastritz on Zen Virtual Piano. Mathias Gastritz, also written Matthias Gastritz and known in Latin as Castricius, was a German composer and organist of the Renaissance. He was appointed organist of the city of Amberg on 22 December 1561 and served for nearly thirty years, resigning in 1589 after litigation and personal insults. Among his students was probably the composer Andreas Raselius. Nearly thirty years at one city’s organ suggests a musician whose working life was tied closely to a single place. Gastritz’s compositions are in the older motet tradition of the sixteenth century, and the bach-cantatas.com biography characterizes them by a transparent imitation technique and syllabic text declamation, with polyphonic opening imitations that usually lead to a clear, homophonic sound. Deutsche Biographie describes him as a German contrapuntist of the sixteenth century. Clear imitation, text set syllable by syllable and a homophonic sound can be read as music made so that the words could be heard. In 1569 he published, in Nuremberg, Novae harmonicae Cantiones et piae ita etiam suaves et jucundae, quinque vocibus concinnatae, along with Carmina latina quatuor vocum and Teutsche und lateinische Lieder mit 4 Stimmen. The IMSLP page for Novae harmonicae cantiones lists 27 motets, among them Ego cantabo fortitudinem tuam domine, Iustus non conturbabitur and Benedictus es Domine Deus Israhel. He dated the dedication of the Teutsche und lateinische Lieder 14 February 1571 from Amberg in the Upper Palatinate, so he probably lived there at that time. Publications that mix Latin and German texts and four- and five-voice settings suggest a composer working across languages and vocal textures. One of his best-known compositions is the five-part Lied Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, O Herr, set to a text by Martin Schalling. Deutsche Biographie says that in the Symbola it stands as no. X under the label “other more beautiful little songs” and that, following the then almost universal custom, its melody is placed in the tenor. A song whose melody is placed in the tenor, following what Deutsche Biographie calls the then almost universal custom, can be read as a piece written within the habits of its day.
Browse piano sheets by Matthias Gastritz on Zen Virtual Piano.
Mathias Gastritz, also written Matthias Gastritz and known in Latin as Castricius, was a German composer and organist of the Renaissance. He was appointed organist of the city of Amberg on 22 December 1561 and served for nearly thirty years, resigning in 1589 after litigation and personal insults. Among his students was probably the composer Andreas Raselius. Nearly thirty years at one city’s organ suggests a musician whose working life was tied closely to a single place.
Gastritz’s compositions are in the older motet tradition of the sixteenth century, and the bach-cantatas.com biography characterizes them by a transparent imitation technique and syllabic text declamation, with polyphonic opening imitations that usually lead to a clear, homophonic sound. Deutsche Biographie describes him as a German contrapuntist of the sixteenth century. Clear imitation, text set syllable by syllable and a homophonic sound can be read as music made so that the words could be heard.
In 1569 he published, in Nuremberg, Novae harmonicae Cantiones et piae ita etiam suaves et jucundae, quinque vocibus concinnatae, along with Carmina latina quatuor vocum and Teutsche und lateinische Lieder mit 4 Stimmen. The IMSLP page for Novae harmonicae cantiones lists 27 motets, among them Ego cantabo fortitudinem tuam domine, Iustus non conturbabitur and Benedictus es Domine Deus Israhel. He dated the dedication of the Teutsche und lateinische Lieder 14 February 1571 from Amberg in the Upper Palatinate, so he probably lived there at that time. Publications that mix Latin and German texts and four- and five-voice settings suggest a composer working across languages and vocal textures.
One of his best-known compositions is the five-part Lied Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, O Herr, set to a text by Martin Schalling. Deutsche Biographie says that in the Symbola it stands as no. X under the label “other more beautiful little songs” and that, following the then almost universal custom, its melody is placed in the tenor. A song whose melody is placed in the tenor, following what Deutsche Biographie calls the then almost universal custom, can be read as a piece written within the habits of its day.
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Mathias Gastritz, also written Matthias Gastritz and Latinized as Castricius, was a German organist and composer of the Renaissance.
He was appointed organist of the city of Amberg on 22 December 1561 and served for nearly thirty years until he resigned in 1589.
It is one of his best-known compositions, a five-part Lied set to a text by Martin Schalling, with its melody placed in the tenor.
In 1569 in Nuremberg he published Novae harmonicae Cantiones, Carmina latina quatuor vocum and Teutsche und lateinische Lieder mit 4 Stimmen.