Conrad Paumann

Conrad Paumann (* 1409-1415 in Nuremberg, † January 24, 1473 in Munich) was a German organist, composer and lutenist. His exact date of birth is unknown, but is usually dated to 1409 or 1410/1415.

Life

Conrad Paumann who was blind from birth, received in his youth, promotion of the family of the patrician Ulrich Grunherr and his son Paul. He was from 1446 organist at St. Sebald in Nuremberg under pastor Laubing. In the same year he married Margaret Weichser. The 1474 as organist at the ducal court at Munich acting Paumann Paul is probably a son of this marriage. It was called Conrad Paumann a "master whether all the Masters ". After training and working as an organist in Nuremberg, where he could play on the newly developed organs of Henry Traxdorf, Paumann came 1450/1451 to the court of the Dukes Ernst and William III. and Albrecht III. to Munich (grade 80 fl. / year). Although employed as court organist, he showed here certainly all his skills as a versatile multi-instrumentalist ( the relief in the Munich Frauenkirche shows lute, recorder, harp, fiddle and Portative ( organ ) - the organ was not yet the pure church instrument like today). He was on his office addition, a sought- organ expert and therefore made ​​numerous trips abroad. In his last years he was organist at the Frauenkirche.

In his time, he was probably the most famous and most honored musicians in Germany. He is even considered one of the greatest musicians of the German-speaking world in the 15th century. He wrote theoretical works organisandi as the treatise Fundamentum. The compositions obtained are limited to organ music and song sets, handed down in Buxheimer organ book (which is said to have originated in his circle ) and other manuscript collections such as the Lochamer songbook.

Aside from medieval manuscripts, the epitaph for Conrad Paumann is allowed to be considered the oldest testimony of Music in Munich. It is made of red marble and walled since 1920 on a pillar of the Church of Our Lady under the organ gallery, immediately adjacent to the large monument for Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian.

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That means in New High German: "Anno 1473 on the evening of St. Paul's conversion is dead and buried here most skilful master of all instruments and music Cunrad Pawman, Knight, a native of Nuremberg, born blind, was the God of mercy. "

See also: List of historical music theory literature