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54 AGEICOLA AGEICOLA
? decisive as to his nationa,lity.
He
hither '
is
Netherlands, and
was certainly educated in the
At an early
passed great part of his life there.
as a singer and
age he was distinguished both
ptrformer. A letter of Charles VIII. of France
collection, proves that
hi Mr. Julian Marshall's
left it, with-
he was in that king's service, and
de Medici ; he
out leave, for that of Lorenzo
after some
was at Milan till June 1474, and
of Mantua
years in the service of the Duke
entered (about 1491) that of Philip,
Duke of
and
Austria and sovereign of the Netherlands,
followed him to Castile in 1505.
There Agricola
until his death, at the age of 60
(about
Shahed Elevation. Staked Cadent. remained
the year 1506), of acute fever, in
the territory
of Valladolid. Amongst Agrioola's known
three
works the most important are a motet for
voices in the collection called
Harmomce '

voices
Musices' (1501), two motets for three
in that entitled 'Motetti XXXIII'
(Venice,
Petrucci, 1502) ; eight four-part songs from the
collection 'Canti cento cinquanta' (Venice,
Petrucci, 1503) ; and a volume of five masses
'Misse Alex. Agricolae ' (Venice, Petrucci,
1504). Other MS. masses are mentioned in
Eitner'sQuelUn-Lemkm. It is not improbable
that a large number of his compositions may
stillbe contained in the libraries of Spain.
[For recent investigations concerning Agricola,
see Van der Straeten's Musique aitx Pays-Bos,
vols. vi. and vii.] J. k- s.-b.

AGRICOLA, Gboeg Ludwig, bom Oct. 25,

which no explanation in words is attempted,
but an example in notes given as above (Ex. 4).
The agremens used in modern music or in the
1643, at Grossen-Furra in Thuringia, where
his father was clergyman ; brought up at
Eisenach and Gtotha and the universities of
Wittenberg and Leipzig capeUmeister at Gotha
;

performance of the works of the great masters in 1670. He composed Musikalische Neben- '

are acoiacoatura, appoggiatura, arpeggio, mor- stunden ' for two violins, two violas, and bass ;
dent, naohsohlag, shake or trill, slide, and turn, religious hymns and madrigals ; sonatas and
each of which will be fully described in its own preludes, 'auf franzosische Art,' etc. etc. He
place. [See also the masterly treatise on Musical ' died at Gotha, Feb. 20, 1676, at the age of thirty-
Ornamentation' by E. Dannreuther, in two three, full of promise, biit without accomplishing
volumes of Novello's Music Primers.] F. T. a style for himself. f. g.

AGEICOLA, Alexander, a composer of AGEICOLA, JoHANN, born at Nuremberg

great celebrity living at the end of the 15th
century and beginning of the 16th. Crespel's
lament on the death of Ockeghem mentions
Agricola as a fellow-pupU in the school of that
master ; and the dates of his published works,
together with an interesting epitaph printed in
a collection of motets published at "Wittenberg
in 1538, furnish us with materials
for brieily
sketching his life. The words of the epitaph,
which bears the title ' Epitaphium Alex. Agri-
colfeSymphoniastE regis Castiliffi Philippi,' are
as follows : Professor of Ehetoric. But though he went
Musioa quid defies? Periit mea cura deouaque.
about 1570, professor of music in the Gym-
nasium at Erfurt in 1611, and composer of
three collections of motets (Nuremberg, 1601-
1611).
AGEICOLA, JoHANN Fkiedeioh, born Jan.
4, 1720, at Dobitz, near Altenburg, Saxony.
His father was a judge, and his mother, Maria
Magdalen Manke, a friend of Handel. He
began to learn music in his fifth year under a
certain Martini. In 1738 he entered the
University of Leipzig when Gottsched was
through the regular course of humanities he '
'

Estne Alexander ? Is meus Agricola. also studied music under Sebsistian Bach, with
Die a^e qualis erat ? Clanis vooum manuumque. whom he worTsed hard for three years. After
Ouis loons huno rapuit? Valdoletanns ager.
ipse Philippus.
Quis Belgain hue traxit? Magnus rex this he resided at Dresden and Berlin, at the
Quomorbointeriit? Febre fnrente obut. latter from 1741 onwards, and studied the
Jam sexagesimus annus.
.aitas quK fnerat?
Sol ubi tunc stabat? Virginio in
capite. dramatic style under Graun and Hasse. In
Who brought the Belgian 1749 he published two pamphlets on French
The question '