About Georg Prenner
Lived 1501 – 1590 (aged 88–89). Georg Prenner was a German composer and parson.
Georg Prenner (aka. Brenner or Pyrenaeus, born Laibach, present-day Ljubljana; died St Pölten, 4 February 1590) was active as a composer in Prague during the 1560s, when 39 of his motets were printed in various anthologies. A few additional works survive in manuscripts, and a modern edition appeared as Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae, xxiv, Ljubljana, 1994.
He is first documented in 1554 as a copyist in the Prague Kapelle of the Archduke Maximillian, later Emperor Maximilian II. On 20 August 1572 Prenner was appointed abbot of the monastery of St Dorothea, Vienna (site of the present Dorotheum), and in 1578 he moved to the Herzogenburg Priory near St Pölten.
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Who was Georg Prenner?
16th-century Slovenian composer
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Georg Prenner was born in 1501 in Ljubljana.
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Georg Prenner died on 4 February 1590 in St. Pölten.
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Georg Prenner was a composer and parson.
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Georg Prenner was German.
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