Heyden (Heiden, Haiden), Sebald

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Heyden (Heiden, Haiden), Sebald

Heyden (Heiden, Haiden), Sebald, important German music theorist, father of Hans Heyden; b. Brück, near Erlangen, Dec. 8, 1499; d. Nuremberg, July 9, 1561. He was educated at the Univ. of Ingolstadt (M.A., 1519). In 1521 he was appointed cantor at the Spitalkirche and rector of its school in Nuremberg, and in 1525 he became rector of the school at St. Sebald. He was the author of the important theoretical work Musicae, id est, Artis canendi, libri duo (Nuremberg, 1537; 2nd ed., 1540, as De arte canendi, ac vero signorum in cantibus usu, libri duo; Eng. tr. by C. Miller in Musicological Studies and Documents, XXVI, 1972). He also wrote Rudienta [Institutiones musicae] (Nuremberg, 1529; not extant; 2nd ed., 1532, as Musicae stoicheidsis).

Bibliography

A. Kosel, S. H. (1499–1561): Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Nürnberger Schulmusik in der Reformationszeit (Würzburg, 1940).

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