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<b>Daniel Croner</b> (1656-1740) was a [[Transylvania|Transylvanian]] composer and organist of Saxon descent. He is best known for his four collections of organ music, which are among the earliest surviving organ compositions by a composer from this region.<ref name=cosima>Cosma, Viorel. '[https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000006860 Croner, Daniel].' <i>Grove Music Online</I>. 2001. Oxford University Press. Online resource, accessed 1 Apr. 2024</ref> |
<b>Daniel Croner</b> (1656-1740) was a [[Transylvania|Transylvanian]] composer and organist of Saxon descent. He is best known for his four collections of organ music, which are among the earliest surviving organ compositions by a composer from this region.<ref name=cosima>Cosma, Viorel. '[https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000006860 Croner, Daniel].' <i>Grove Music Online</I>. 2001. Oxford University Press. Online resource, accessed 1 Apr. 2024</ref> |
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==Early life== |
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Daniel Croner was born in [[Kronstadt]] (now [[Braşov]]) |
Daniel Croner was born in [[Kronstadt]] (now [[Braşov]]). <ref name=hartel>Andreas Porfetye. '[https://www.breitkopf.com/assets/pdf/EB_8339_Vorwort.pdf Vorwort/Preface]' in <i>Old Transsylvanian Organ Music: selected pieces from the organ tablature by Daniel Croner</I> (Leipzig: Breitkpof & Hartel, 1972). EB 8339 ISMN: 979-0-004-17647-4. Online resource, accessed 1 April 2024</ref> to master tailor Daniel Croner and his wife Katharina at their home in Purzengasse. His musical talent was recognized early and encouraged.<ref name=kulture>'Daniel Croner' in <i>Kulturstiftung der deutschen Vertriebenen für Wissenschaft und Forschung</I>. Online resource, accessed 1 April 2024.</ref> |
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==Eduation== |
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From 1671-1678 he attended Kronstadt's Honterus-Gymnasium during which time he began to make copies of music for his own use resulting in what he called his “Exercionale” (1675). He then moved to Weissenburg (now [[Alba Iulia]]) to perfect his knowledge of Hungarian and moved to Breslau in 1680 to study at the Maria Magdalena High School. There in January 1681 he began writing his musical manuscript “Tabulatura Fugarum, Praeludiorum, Canzonum, Tocatarum et Phantasiarum”.<ref name=kulture></ref> |
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Later that year Croner moved to the university in Leipzig. It seems he was unprepared for the cost of his studies there and he transferred to Wittenberg to study theology. Here he got to know the local cantor [[Johann Ulich]] (1634-1712). When Corner left Wittenberg in 1683 Ulrich dedicated a printed “Musical Ode” to him. <ref name=kulture></ref> |
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==Adult life== |
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In January 1684 Daniel Croner returned to Kronstadt and by the spring of 1685 he'd copied almost a hundred preludes and fugues into his “Exercitationale” of which around twenty are his own works.<ref name=kulture></ref> |
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In 1687 Croner married and in 1691 he was appointed preacher at Jronstadt's St. John's Church. In 1693 he was appointed "preacher" at the city parish church, [[Biserica Neagră|Schwarze Kirche]]" (Black Church).<ref name=kulture></ref> |
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<ref name=kulture>'Daniel Croner' in <i>Kulturstiftung der deutschen Vertriebenen für Wissenschaft und Forschung</I>. Online resource, accessed 1 April 2024.</ref> |
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==Works== |
==Works== |
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Revision as of 20:58, 1 April 2024
Daniel Croner (1656-1740) was a Transylvanian composer and organist of Saxon descent. He is best known for his four collections of organ music, which are among the earliest surviving organ compositions by a composer from this region.[1]
Early life
Daniel Croner was born in Kronstadt (now Braşov). [2] to master tailor Daniel Croner and his wife Katharina at their home in Purzengasse. His musical talent was recognized early and encouraged.[3]
Eduation
From 1671-1678 he attended Kronstadt's Honterus-Gymnasium during which time he began to make copies of music for his own use resulting in what he called his “Exercionale” (1675). He then moved to Weissenburg (now Alba Iulia) to perfect his knowledge of Hungarian and moved to Breslau in 1680 to study at the Maria Magdalena High School. There in January 1681 he began writing his musical manuscript “Tabulatura Fugarum, Praeludiorum, Canzonum, Tocatarum et Phantasiarum”.[3]
Later that year Croner moved to the university in Leipzig. It seems he was unprepared for the cost of his studies there and he transferred to Wittenberg to study theology. Here he got to know the local cantor Johann Ulich (1634-1712). When Corner left Wittenberg in 1683 Ulrich dedicated a printed “Musical Ode” to him. [3]
Adult life
In January 1684 Daniel Croner returned to Kronstadt and by the spring of 1685 he'd copied almost a hundred preludes and fugues into his “Exercitationale” of which around twenty are his own works.[3]
In 1687 Croner married and in 1691 he was appointed preacher at Jronstadt's St. John's Church. In 1693 he was appointed "preacher" at the city parish church, Schwarze Kirche" (Black Church).[3]
Works
Croner's oeuvre comprises four manuscript collections of organ music - fugues, preludes, toccatas, fantasias and chorales - that were written in tablature and were kept in the library of the Black Church.[1]
- 1: dated Kronstadt, 1675
- 2: dated Breslau, 1671
- 3: dated Wittenberg, 1682
- 4: dated Kronstadt, 1685
In these collections Croner not only displays his grasp of traditional styles - not least by including alongside his own compositions the works of older contemporaries such as Johann Froberger, Johann Erasmus Kindermann, Johann Christian Kittel, Bernhard Meyer and Johann Ulich - but also his own lively innovatory spirit. In these collections Croner marks the transition from an earlier polyphonic style to the new styles of the High Baroque. Of particular note was his organisation of works inro complete cycles of keys (such as we find later in J.S. Bach’s Das wohltemperirte Klavier). Other notable characteristics include: - rhythmic variations of choral themes; - the increased use of keys rather than church modes; - and the frequent introduction of the pedal. Croner was a pioneer in the inclusion of instructions for fingering methods on keyboard instruments and the finger extension principle for the execution of preludes and capriccios.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Cosma, Viorel. 'Croner, Daniel.' Grove Music Online. 2001. Oxford University Press. Online resource, accessed 1 Apr. 2024
- ^ Andreas Porfetye. 'Vorwort/Preface' in Old Transsylvanian Organ Music: selected pieces from the organ tablature by Daniel Croner (Leipzig: Breitkpof & Hartel, 1972). EB 8339 ISMN: 979-0-004-17647-4. Online resource, accessed 1 April 2024
- ^ a b c d e f 'Daniel Croner' in Kulturstiftung der deutschen Vertriebenen für Wissenschaft und Forschung. Online resource, accessed 1 April 2024.
External links
- Public domain scores by Daniel Corner in the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) / Petrucci Music Library. Online resource, accessed 1 April 2024.
- Daniel Croner (1656 – 1740) Tabulaturae (Eds. András Pernye, Katalin Szilvia Fittler, Dániel Benkő) Series: Tastenmusik aus dem 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. (Budapest: EMB, 2004 ) Cat. Z7831. ISMN: 9790080087312
- Various performances of items from Croner's Tabulaturae can be found on YouTube'
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