Georg Rhau

Aliases: Rhaw

Life

Born: 1488

Died: 6 August 1548

Biography Thomaskantor from 1518 and publisher of numerous didactic anthologies of bicinia, trios &c. as well as music by Heinrich Finck, Thomas Stoltzer, Arnold von Bruck and Ludwig Senfl.

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List of choral works

Mass for 12 vv. (1519)

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Selected Publications

• Selectae Harmoniae quatuor vocum de Passione Domini, 4vv (1538)
• Symphoniae iucundae atque adeo breves, 4vv (1538)
• Officia paschalia, de resurrectione et ascensione Domini (1539)
• Vesperarum precum officia: Psalmi feriarum et dominicalium dierum tocius anni, cum antiphonis, hymnis et responsoriis (1540)
• Sixt Dietrich: Novum ac insigne opus musicum 36 antiphonarum (1541)
• Opus decem missarum, 4vv (1541)
• Balthasar Resinarius: Responsorum numero octoginta de tempore et festis iuxta seriem totius anni, libri duo (1542)
• Tricinia … latina, germanica, brabantia et gallica (1542)
• Sacrorum hymnorum liber primus (1542)
• Johann Walter: Wittembergisch deudsch geistlich Gesangbüchlein, 4–5vv (1544)
• Postremum vespertini officii opus … Magnificat octo modorum seu tonorum numero XXV (1544)
• Newe deudsche geistliche Gesenge CXXIII … für die gemeinen Schulen, 4–5vv (1544)
• Sixt Dietrich: Novum opus musicum tres tomos [122] sacrorum hymnorum (1545)
• Officiorum (ut vocant) de nativitate, circumcisione, epiphania Domini, et purificationis, etc. (1545)
• Bicinia gallica, latina et germanica 1 (tomus primus) (1545)
• Bicinia gallica, latina et germanica 2 Secundus tomus biciniorum, quae et ipsa sunt gallica, latina, germanica (1545)

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