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Lectiones sacrae: Musik um 1600 in Würzburg
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Julius Echter, Patron der Künste. Konturen eines Fürsten und Bischofs der Renaissance, edited by Damian Dombrowski, Markus Josef Maier, and Fabian Müller, 319-28. Translated by Damian Dombrowski. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017. Weblink: https://www.amazon.com
Luther, Martin
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Oxford Bibliographies in Music, http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com. Published 27 July 2017 Weblink: doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199757824-0220
Julius Röntgen: Piano Music Vol. 3
Artists: Mark Anderson Recording details: Julius Röntgen (1855-1932) was both a composer and a gifted pianist who composed more than 600 compositions. Recent renewed interest in Röntgen has revealed many treasures still waiting to be awakened in the Röntgen Archives (Den Haag, Netherlands). Alongside a huge series of unknown string quartets, string trios, piano trios […]
Jonas Losch and Musical Culture in Late Sixteenth-Century Augsburg
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins für Schwaben 109 (2017): 85-95. Weblink: http://digital.bib-bvb.de/
Reworking the Confessional Soundscape in the German Counter-Reformation
Author: Alexander Fisher Publication details: Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis 38 (2014): 105-16. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/T0BtjzkL
A Musical Dialogue in Bronze: Gregor Aichinger’s Lacrumae (1604) and Hans Reichle’s Crucifixion Group for the Basilica of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg
Author: Alexander Fisher Publication details: Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early Modern Germany, edited by Jeffrey Chipps Smith, 119-41. Farnham, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. Weblink: https://www.routledge.com/
The Sounds of Eucharistic Culture
Author: Alexander Fisher Publication details: A Companion to the Eucharist in the Reformation, edited by Lee Palmer Wandel, 445-65. Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 46. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014. Weblink: https://go.exlibris.link/CRcr2FfM
Von Bulow 1/ Mark Anderson
Artists: Mark Anderson Recording details: Baron Hans Guido von Bülow (1839-1894) was a German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. One of the most famous conductors of the 19th century, his activity was critical for establishing the successes of several major composers of the time, especially Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms. Alongside Carl Tausig, Bülow was perhaps the most prominent […]
V. 1600-1750
Author: Alexander Fisher Publication details: Part of “History of Liturgical Music” [revised from Anthony Milner]. In the New Catholic Encyclopedia, Supplement 2011, ed. Robert Fastiggi, et al, 2:466-69. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2011. Weblink: https://www.gale.com/ebooks/
Themes of Exile and (Re-)Enclosure in Music for the Franciscan Convents of Counter-Reformation Munich during the Thirty Years War
Author: Fisher, Alexander Publication details: Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives, edited by Lynne Tatlock, 281-305. Leiden: Brill, 2010. Weblink: https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004184541.i-478.39 Abstract: This anthology assembles cross-disciplinary perspectives on the experience of and responses to forms of material and spiritual loss in early modern Germany, tracing how individuals and communities registered, coped with, and […]