Joachim Burmeister
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Joachim Burmeister was a north German poet, composer and music theorist.
He was the oldest of five children born to a beadworker and townsman of Lüneburg. His brother Anton (d. 1634) became the cantor of St. Michael's Church in Lüneburg, following Christian Praetorius.
Burmeister attended the University of Rostock, where he received the Master's degree and became cantor of the Rostock Gymnasium (Schoale Rostochiensis Collega Classicus).
He was the oldest of five children born to a beadworker and townsman of Lüneburg. His brother Anton (d. 1634) became the cantor of St. Michael's Church in Lüneburg, following Christian Praetorius.
Burmeister attended the University of Rostock, where he received the Master's degree and became cantor of the Rostock Gymnasium (Schoale Rostochiensis Collega Classicus).
Works
- 1601 published a collection of four-voiced psalms
- 1605 published in Rostock a German-language comedy titled "Christ Revealed" (Χριστὸς πεφασμένος, der geoffenbarte Christus, Comödia), available online.
- 1606 published "Musica poetica," in which he explains his musical-rhetorical figure theory.
- 1609 issued "Musica Mathematica" by Heinrich Brucaeus (1531–1593) under the title "Musica theorica"