Jacob Handl - Gallus und das deutsche Lied

Abstract

Thirteen compositions with German texts attributed to Jacob Handl are preserved in a number of music manuscripts and prints from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The transmission history, reception, compositional techniques, style, authorship and possible intended purposes of these hitherto little-noticed works will be discussed in the present article.

Keywords

• jacob handl-gallus
• german song
• protestantism
• nicolaus selneccer
• sethus calvisius