Georg Prenner

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Aliases: Brenner, Pyrenaeus

Life

Born: c. 1545 Laibach (Ljubljana)

Died: 4 February 1590

Biography Although he was salaried as a music copyist in the 1550's and composing during the next decade, Prenner's primary career was as a cleric. He matriculated at Vienna in 1551, was ordained 1561, became chaplain (1565) and priest (1567) at the court of Maximillian II, Abbot of Sankt Dorothea, Vienna (1572) and Herzogenburg, St Pölten (1578), and Imperial Councilor (1587).

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List of choral works

 
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Publications

Some 40 motets survive in various anthologies:

  • Thesaurus musicus (Nuremberg 1564)
  • Novus atque catholicus thesaurus musicus (Venice: A. Gardano; RISM 1568)
  • Tricinia sacra ex diversis et probatis autoribus collecta (Nuremberg 1567)
  • Selectissimarum sacrarum cantionum flores (Louvain: P. Phalèse; RISM 1569)

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