Ludwig Senfl

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Ludwig Senfl (born around 1486, died between 2 December 1542 and 10 August 1543) was a Swiss composer of the Renaissance, active in Germany. He was the most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and was an influential figure in the development of the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style in Germany. Senfl was probably born in Basle around 1486, and lived in Zürich from 1488 until 1496, when he joined the choir of the Hofkapelle of Emperor Maximilian I in Augsburg. Apart from one brief visit in 1504 he appears never again to have lived in Switzerland. In 1497 he followed the Hofkapelle to Vienna, and between 1500 and 1504 he probably studied in Vienna for three years, the standard practice for choirboys whose voices had broken, as part of the normal training for the priesthood. During this period he studied with Heinrich Isaac, serving as his copyist by 1509; he is known to have copied much of the older composer's Choralis constantinus, an enormous work which he was later to complete after Isaac's death. After a trip to Italy sometime between 1508 and 1510, Senfl returned to the Hofkapelle; the Emperor appointed him to fill Isaac's position as court composer when Isaac died in 1517. In 1518 Senfl lost a toe in a hunting accident; evidently the injury disabled him for up to a year. When the Emperor died in 1519, Senfl was out of a job, and his circumstances altered for the worse: Charles V dismissed most of Maximilian'

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Joculatores Upsalienses: Early Music At Wik

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Early Music (The Glory of)

Ludwig Senfl: Im Maien

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Ludwig Senfl: Motets & Songs

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Vocal Music – Weiss, G.D. / Debussy, C. / Cage, J. / Moody, I. / Ligeti, G. / Clemens Non Papa, J. / Lasso, O. Di / Senfl, L.

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Art & Music: Bruegel - Music of His Time

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From the Imperial Court: Music for the House of Hapsburg

The Book of Madrigals

Chamber Music (16Th Century) - Praetorius, M. / Torre, F. De La / Narvaez, L. De / Susato, T. / Arbeau, T. / Milan, L.

Senfl, L.: Missa Paschalis / Motets / Lieder

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Tugend und Untugend (Virtue and Vice): German Secular Songs and Instrumental Music from the Time of Luther

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Winds and Voices 1 (At the Court of King Christian III)

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