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Cornelius Burgh
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german17th century
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Cornelius Burgh (born around 1590 in Cologne, died around 1639 in Erkelenz) was a German lawyer, organist and composer of the early Baroque. Cornelius Burgh studied law and music in Cologne. From 1616 to 1618 he was employed as an organist in the service of the Mönchengladbach Benedictines at the Münsterkirche . In 1618 he married Eva Aredtz in Mönchengladbach and moved with her to Erkelenz, where he worked as a notary , lawyer and organist at the parish church of St. Lambertus . His two daughters Catharina (* 1618) and Anna (* 1621) were born in Erkelenz. Because of his main job, Burgh started composing late. In 1626 he presented his collection Liber primus concertum ecclesiasticorum, consisting of 20 three-part sacred concerts. In his Hortus Marianus collection of 25 four-part sacred concerts, published in 1630, he only uses Marian texts. The works of composers such as Claudio Monteverdi, Lodovico Grossi da Viadana or Alessandro Grandi, combined with the monody that was then reviving in Italy and the beginning of the figured bass music, served as models. Burgh's works found distribution in the Rhineland and the Spanish Netherlands. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.