About Heinrich Faber
Lived 1490 – 1552 (aged 61–62). Heinrich Faber was a German composer, cantor, musicologist, music theorist and university teacher.
Heinrich Faber (before 1500 – 26 February 1552) was a German music theorist, composer, and Kantor.
Born in Lichtenfels, Bavaria, he was employed as a singer by Christian II of Denmark in Copenhagen, from 1515 to 1524. He later studied in Wittenberg, and is known to have lectured there, in 1551. He died in Oelsnitz.
He is known for several theoretical works, and for his beginners' textbook Compendiolum musicae of 1548, which was the most popular book in Lutheran schools during the 16th and 17th centuries, and is today an important source of two-voice compositions of the period.
The Heinrich-Faber Musikschule Lichtenfels – a musical school – is named after him.
Works Compendiolum musicae (1548) De musica poetica (1548) Ad musicam practicam introductio (1550)
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Who was Heinrich Faber?
German composer and music theorist
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Heinrich Faber was born in 1490 in Lichtenfels.
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Heinrich Faber died on 26 February 1552 in Oelsnitz.
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Heinrich Faber was a composer, cantor, musicologist, music theorist and university teacher.
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Heinrich Faber was German.
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