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Benedict de Drusina
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renaissancepolishlute16th century
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Benedictus de Drusina ( c. 1520/25 - between 1578 and 1582) was a lutenist of the Renaissance era. Benedictus came from Drusina near Elbing in Polish Prussia (probably Drusendorf am Drausensee ). He lived in Italy and France for some time and got to know the lute music there. From the early 1550s Benedict was in Frankfurt (Oder) , where he pursued musical and humanistic studies. In 1556 he had a collection of lute music printed there. He dedicated this to the Swedish king Gustav I. In the summer of 1562, Benedict was in Güstrow at the court of the Duke of Mecklenburg. In 1570 he matriculated at the University of Leipzig . In 1573, Benedict de Drusina had another collection of lute music printed and dedicated it to Elector Augustus of Saxony . In 1577 he bought a house in the Brühl in Leipzig and acquired citizenship for the high sum of 16 guilders. On March 13, 1578 he bought the neighboring house. That is the last mention about him. On August 4, 1582, the widow Brigitta took on debts on the house. The organist Petrus de Drusina († 1611) in Danzig and Elbing was probably a son or nephew, as was the organist Fritz de Drusina († 1601) in Hamburg. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.