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* {{NoCo|Erhalt uns Herr}} ( [{{filepath:Presten-Erhalt_uns.pdf}} {{pdf}}] [{{filepath:Presten-Erhalt_uns.mid}} {{mid}}] [{{filepath:Presten-Erhalt_uns-XML.zip}} MusicXML] ) | * {{NoCo|Erhalt uns Herr}} ( [{{filepath:Presten-Erhalt_uns.pdf}} {{pdf}}] [{{filepath:Presten-Erhalt_uns.mid}} {{mid}}] [{{filepath:Presten-Erhalt_uns-XML.zip}} MusicXML] ) | ||
* {{NoCo|Peccavimus tibi}} ( [{{filepath:Presten-Peccavimus.pdf}} {{pdf}}] [{{filepath:Presten-Peccavimus.mid}} {{mid}}] [{{filepath:Presten-Peccavimus-XML.zip}} MusicXML] ) | * {{NoCo|Peccavimus tibi}} ( [{{filepath:Presten-Peccavimus.pdf}} {{pdf}}] [{{filepath:Presten-Peccavimus.mid}} {{mid}}] [{{filepath:Presten-Peccavimus-XML.zip}} MusicXML] ) | ||
* {{NoCo|Surge iluminare}} ( [{{filepath:Presten-Surge_Tunc.pdf}} {{pdf}}] [{{filepath:Presten-Surge_Tunc.mid}} {{mid}}] [{{filepath:Presten-Surge_Tunc-XML.zip}} MusicXML] ) | |||
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Revision as of 09:50, 19 July 2013
Aliases: Jürgen, Georgio, Preston
Life
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Died: 1553
Biography
Jörgen Presten was a composer, presumably of Scottish origin, active in Denmark. There can be little doubt that he is the ‘Georgius Preston Scotus’ who graduated as magister from the University of Copenhagen on May 14, 1545. He was leader of the kantori, the choir of the royal chapel of Christian III, in 1551, and two years later died of the plague.
Presten was the most productive of the foreign composers at the Danish court: 19 works attributed to him survive, comprising six Latin motets, ten German hymns and three instrumental fugae or canons. In the Copenhagen source all the vocal pieces are untexted except Peccavimus tibi, which has the text in the bass. Ten of the pieces are cantus-firmus settings, with the cantus firmus in short phrases, without ornamentation, in the tenor. Imitation is sometimes used at the beginnings of phrases but is not pursued, and there is rarely any overall sense of structure. In the eight-voice Christ ist erstanden the melody is sung by the two highest voices in canon while the other voices accompany them with free counterpoint.
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List of choral works
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- Christ ist erstanden a 6 (
MusicXML ) - Christ ist erstanden a 8 ( MusicXML )
- Dies est leticie ( MusicXML )
- Erhalt uns Herr ( MusicXML )
- Peccavimus tibi ( MusicXML )
- Surge iluminare ( MusicXML )
- Vater unser in Himmelreich ( MusicXML )
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