Homer Herpol

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Homer Herpol (born around 1510 in Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais); died October 1573 in Konstanz) was a Franco-Flemish composer, conductor, cantor and cleric of the Renaissance. No information has been passed on about Homer Herpol's early years and the first training period. In Freiburg im Breisgau, he was a student of Heinrich Glarean, who on the 17th. April 1550 to the later provost in Freiburg im Üchtland (Switzerland), Simon Schibenhart, by letter that a young man named Homerus would come to him with his work; he had added an epilogue to this work. In the same year, Herpol was given the place of a cantor at the church of St. Nicholas in Fribourg (Switzerland). The local city council allowed him a holiday for further studies at Glarean in 1555. There are several letters from the Council to him and Glarean in an effort to return Herpol. The composer received on his arrival on the 2nd. June 1557 gifts, and he had previously been reserved a pledge. In addition to his cantor activity, Herpol also worked at the deanery court, later also at the newly created choir court. Previously, he made a trip to his homeland of St. Omer. At his church of St. Nicholas, his brother Laurenz Herpol became the successor of Claude Sebastiani as an organist in 1565, but died on the 30th. August this year at the plague. Homer Herpol had his Gospel motets "Novum et insigne opus musicum" printed in Nuremberg in the same year, with a dedication to Otto von Waldburg, Prince Bishop of Augsburg. Bishop Otto

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