(Lood’-vikh Zen’-fal) c. 1486–1542/3 Swiss composer Senfl joined the choir of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I as a choirboy in 1498 and became Isaac’s star pupil. On Isaac’s death in 1517, Senfl succeeded him in the position of Hofkomponist. From 1523 until his death he was in Munich, at the court chapel of Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria. Although he ...
less self-consciously highbrow language of the madrigal. Recommended Recording: Mass Praeter rerum serium, Motets, Tallis Scholars (dir) Peter Phillips (Gimell) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Ludwig Senfl | Renaissance | Classical ...
work on the Choralis constantinus, a set of polyphonic Mass music for the entire liturgical year. This enormous project remained unfinished at his death; edited posthumously by his student Senfl, it was finally published in 1550–55. The twentieth-century composer Anton Webern (1883–1945) received his doctorate for his study of Isaac. Recommended Recording: Missa de apostolis, Motets, Tallis ...
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