Wer war Giovanni Gabrielis „letzter Schüler“? Zu Christoph Klemsee und Gallus Guggumos

Abstract

According to the ledgers of the Counts of Schwarzburg, the Anstadt organist Christoph Klemsee studied with Gabrieli from spring 1608 to late autumn of 1609. The fact that his book of madrigals (1613) appeared in Jena rather than Venice is not connected with Gabrieli’s death in 1613 but rather with Klemsee’s short period of instruction. The Munich organist Gallus Guggumos, a pupil of Gabrieli’s from 1609 (a fact cited here for the first time), only completed his studies in early summer of 1612. To mark this event he arranged the publication of a set of four-to-six-part motets. This suggests that only Gabrieli’s Protestant pupils published books of madrigals, at the end of their studies, while Roman Chatolics such as Guggumos and, previously, Gregor Aichinger published volumes of motets.