Francis Tregian the Younger

Francis Tregian the Younger (c. 1574 in Cornwall, † 1619 in London) was an English composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque.

Biography

Tregian Francis was born into a family from the wealthy landed gentry of Cornwall, who was known for her devout Catholicism in England during the Reformation. His eponymous father Francis Tregian the Elder (1548-1608) had, inter alia, the Catholic priest Cuthbert Mayne (1543-1577) on his estate granted shelter. For him the assets of Elizabeth I was seized, which included the considerable income from a year 3000 sterling. Tregians father spent for 28 years in prison and was pardoned by James I to exile. He died in exile in Lisbon.

Very little is known about the life of the younger Francis Tregian. He was probably trained in France and worked supposedly from 1592 to 1594 in the Kämmererei by Cardinal William Allen ( 1532-1594 ) in Rome. This emigrant was the most influential political and religious advocates of recatholicization England in the late 16th century. Tregian returned to England and demanded the return of the confiscated estates of his family in Cornwall. In 1609 he was ' refusal to participate in the Anglican church "because of its ( the offense engl. Was" recusancy " ) arrested, was imprisoned for ten years in the Fleet Prison and died there in 1619th

The Swiss writer and director Anne Cuneo ( b. 1936 ) turned in 1996 after her own book template a documentary about Francis Tregian for Swiss television and 3sat.

Music

The few documents that exist on Tregian, showing a keen interest in music. There have been handed down several compositions by him. But primarily he wore pieces for harpsichord, orchestral ensembles and for choirs together. He is the author of music anthologies, for example, Included fantasies of Thomas Lupo (1571-1627), madrigals by Salamone Rossi ( 1570 - circa 1630 ) or Claudio Monteverdi ( 1567-1643 ), called. Whether he put together the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, is now regarded as controversial. For a long time this important collection of harpsichord music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque English it was attributed. Certainly unhistorical and shaped by later Catholic legends is the idea of ​​the poor musician, who during his imprisonment in the Fleet Prison in copying of compositions passed the time.