Stephan Mahu

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Stephan Mahu, also known as Étienne Mahu, was a Franco-Flemish composer, singer, trombonist, and conductor of the Renaissance, between 1480 and 1490 in the then Flanders. He died in 1541 or later. is family name could indicate either an ancestry from the Lille area or the Hungarian or Slovakian area. Perhaps there is a connection with the furniture merchant Mahu Prynberger , since 1500 in the service of Emperor Maximilian I , and his servant Stephan . Mahu was perhaps already a member of the royal court of Queen Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503-1547), the wife of Ferdinand I , from the beginning of the 1520s, as a singer and trombonist; From November 14th, 1528, he was contractually bound to lifelong service with her and Ferdinand. In return, he was assured of a considerable salary increase; But it was only paid in 1539. Between September 1529 and March 1532, he took over the position of a vice-chancellor of the Viennese Hofmusikkapelle of Archduke Ferdinand under Arnold von Bruck , until the year 1539. As trombonist in this chapel, his name appears as Last time in 1541. Place and date of his death are not recorded. Above all the spiritual works of Stephan Mahu point to the coming style of Palestrina ; In his compositions he used homophonic , polyphonic and also canonical elements. His most extensive and important composition is the setting of the nine readings of Jeremiah's prophets for Holy Week for two to six singing voices, reprinted in 1568. This cycle has been in the

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