Heinrich Isaac

Life

Born: about 1450

Died: 26 March 1517

Isaac is believed to have been born in Flanders. He divided much of his career between the summer court of Maximilian I and his house in Florence, where he was a friend of Machiavelli and played organ at the Duomo (few surviving keyboard works can be confidently attributed to him); the lament Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen was occasioned by these seasonal migrations, and became the Hymntune INNSBRUCK. His most ambitious project was the Choralis Constantinus, a collection of music for all the feasts of the year in the calendar of the Constance cathedral.

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List of choral works

Sacred works

See also contents of Choralis Constantinus

Masses

Credo (M8) (D-Ju MS 33) Credo (MS 11) Missa Carminum Missa De Apostolis a 5

Missa de Beata Virgine a 3 Missa de Beata Virgine a 5 Missa de Beata Virgine a6 Missa de Confessoribus a 5

Missa La Spagna Missa Paschalis a 4 (i) Missa Wolauff Gesell, von hinnen

Motets

Acceptabis sacrificium Ad te levavi (introit) Ad te levavi (Tract) Adorate Deum Alleluia Assumpta est Maria (II) Alleluia Assumpta est Maria I Alleluia Magnificat Alleluia Nativitatis gloriosae Alleluia Veni Domine Alleluia Vox exultationis (Omnia Sanctorum) Alleluia: Amavit eum Alleluia: Benedictus es, Domine Alleluia: Caro mea Alleluia: De profundis clamavi Alleluia: Dominus in Sina Alleluia: Dominus regnavit Alleluia: Dulce lignum (Book 2) Alleluia: Eripe me Alleluia: Excite, Domine Alleluia: Inter natos mulierum Alleluia: Laudate Deum Alleluia: Omnes gentes Alleluia: Ostende nobis, Domine Alleluia: Pascha nostrum Alleluia: Post partum virgo inviolata Alleluia: Post partum virgo inviolata (II) Alleluia: Tu es Petrus I Alleluia: Vidimus stellam Alma redemptoris mater Amen dico vobis quidquid orantes Amen dico vobis quod vos qui relinquistis Angeli archangeli Anima mea liquefacta est Asperges me Ave sanctissima Maria Beata viscera (Visitatio) Beata Viscera a 3 Beata viscera Mariae Benedicimus Deum caeli Benedicta sit sancta Cantate Domino (Communion) Christ ist erstanden Christe qui lux es et dies Christus surrexit a 6 Cibavit eos Circumdederunt me Commovisti Domine Cum esset desponsata Cum venerit Paraclitus De profundis (Tract) De ventre matris Defensor noster aspice

Deus, Deus meus (Tract) Dicit Dominus ego cogito Dicit Dominus implete Dicite pusillanimis Dico vobis, Gaudium Diffusa est (Nativitatis) Dilexisti justitiam Domine quinque talenta Dominus dabit benignitatem Domus mea Ecce advenit Ecce Deus adjuvat me Ecce virgo concipiet Ego sum pastor bonus Esto mihi Factus est repente Fidelis servus et prudens Gaude Maria virgo Gaudeamus omnes (All Saints) Gaudeamus omnes (Assumptio) Gaudeamus omnes (Nativitatis) Gaudeamus omnes (Visitatio) Gustate et videte Haec dies & Pascha nostrum Hoc corpus Illumina faciem In salutari tuo Inclina aurem tuam Intellige clamorem meum Introibo ad altare Invocabit me Jerusalem surge Jerusalem, quae aedificatur Jubilate Deo Judica me Justus es Domine Laetare Ierusalem Laetatus sum Laudes Salvatori Loquebar de testimoniis Manducaverunt Mirabantur omnes Mitte manum tuam Modicum et non videbitis me Nos autem gloriari (Introit, Book 2) Nos autem gloriari (Introit, Book 3) O decus ecclesiae O esca viatorum O Welt, ich muss dich lassen Oculi mei Oculi somnum capiant Oculto en blanco velo

Omnes gentes (Introit) Omnes Sancti Seraphim Optime pastor Panem de caelo Panis, quem ego dedero Pascha nostrum Passer invenit Pater, si non potest Piae vocis laudes canta Populus Sion Praeter rerum seriem Primum quaerite Prophetarum maxime Psallite Domino Puer natus est nobis Puer natus est à 6 Quae Gabrielis archangeli Quasi modo geniti infantes Qui confidunt Qui manducat Qui meditabitur Qui seminant in lachrimis Regina caeli laetare Reminiscere miserationum tuarum, Domine Respice, Domine Rogamus te piissima Virgo Maria Rorate caeli (Advent IV) Rorate coeli (Annunciation) Salve sancta parens a 3 Salve sancta Parens a 4 Salve sancta parens a 6 Sancti baptistae Scapulis suis Sol occasum nesciens Statuit ei Dominus Summi triumphum Suscepimus Deus Terribilis est locus iste Tota pulchra a 4 Tract: Iubilate Domino Tristitia vestra Tu es Petrus (Communio I) Tu es Petrus (Communio II) Tu puer propheta Verbum Bonum Viderunt omnes Vidimus stellam Virgo prudentissima a 6 Viri Galilaei Vocem jucunditatis Vovete Vultum tuum

Parody masses and fragments Missa ‘Argentum et aurum’, 4vv, S ii, L viii Missa Carminum, 4vv, ed. in Cw, vii (1930) Missa ‘Chargé de deul’, 4vv, L vi, F Missa ‘Comme femme desconfortee’, 4vv, L vi Missa ‘Comment poit avoir joie’ [= ‘Wohlauf Gesell, von hinnen’], 4vv, L vi, F Missa ‘Een vrolic wesen’, 4vv, L vi Missa ‘Et trop penser’, 4vv, L vi; ed. in EDM, 1st ser., lxxvi (1990) Missa ‘J’ay pris amours’, lost, cited in 1490 Missa ‘Je ne fays’, lost Missa ‘La mi la sol’ [= ‘O praeclara’], 4vv, S ii Missa La Spagna, 4vv, L vii, F Missa ‘Misericordias Domini’, 4vv, ed. in Zanovello (2005), San ed. in Reese (1974) Missa ‘Pange lingua’, lost Missa Quant j’ay au coeur 4 vo., Jena Choirbooks D-Ju MS 31 (1510). L vii, F, ed. in EDM, 1st ser., lxxvii (1991) Missa ‘Salva nos’, 4vv, S ii, L viii; ed. W. Pass (Vienna, 1972) Missa Tmeiskin was jonck 4 vo., Jena Choirbooks D-Ju MS 31 (1510). L vii Missa ‘Une musque de Biscaye’, 4vv, L vii; ed. in EDM, 1st ser., lxxvi (1990) Missa ‘Virgo prudentissima’, 6vv, S ii, L viii Missa ‘Wolauff Gesell, von hinnen [= ‘Comment peut avoir joie’], 6vv, L viii, ed. in EDM, 1st ser., lxxxiii (1996) Sanctus ‘Fortuna desperata’, 4vv, see songs, Fortuna desperata

Paraphrase masses based on Mass Ordinary chants Missa de apostolis [=‘Magne Deus’], 4vv, L iv, C Missa de apostolis, 5vv, L iii Missa de apostolis, 6vv, L i Missa de Beata Virgine, 4vv (i), L iv, S i Missa de Beata Virgine, 5vv (i), L ii, S i Missa de Beata Virgine, 5vv (ii), L ii, S i Missa de Beata Virgine, 6vv, L i, S i Missa de Beata Virgine, lost Missa de confessoribus, 4vv, L iv, C Missa de confessoribus, 5vv, L iii Missa ferialis, 4vv, (Ky, San, Ag only), L iv Missa de martyribus, 4vv, L iv, C Missa de martyribus, 5vv, L iii Missa paschalis, 4vv (i), L iv, C Missa paschalis, 4vv (ii), [‘ad organum’], L iv Missa paschalis, 5vv, L ii Missa paschalis, 6vv, L i Missa solemnis, 4vv, L iv, C Missa solemnis, 5vv, L ii Missa solemnis, 6vv, L i Missa de virginibus, 5vv, L iii 13 Credos, 4vv, L v Gloria, 4vv, ed. in CMM, xxv (1962) [incorporated into a mass by C. Festa]

Secular works

Al mein mut Die brünlein die da fliessen Donna di dentro di tua casa Un dì lieto giamai non ebbi Fammi una gratia, amore Hora e di Maggio

Hör an mein Klag Ich stund an einem Morgen Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen Maudit soit Mein Freud allein Mein Mütterlein, das fraget aber mich

Ne più bella di queste Quem tremunt impia tartara Quis dabit capiti meo aquam Quis dabit pacem Tmeiskin was jonck Virgo prudentissima a 6

Other works not listed above (See Template:CheckMissing for possible reasons and solutions)

• Christe qui lux es et dies
• Oculi somnum capiant
• Rogamus te piissima Virgo Maria

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Publications

• Misse Henrici Izak (1506)
• Choralis Constantinus (3 vols, 1550-55)

External links

• Works by Heinrich Isaac in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)