Georg Ludwig Agricola

Background

Agricola was born on October 25, 1643, in Großfurra (de) (now Sondershausen) in Thuringia, where his father was a clergyman. He was brought up at Eisenach and Gotha.

Career

He became Kapellmeister at Gotha in 1670. He composed Musikalische Nebenstunden for two violins, two violas, and bass; religious hymns and madrigals; and sonatas and preludes, "in the French style." He died at Gotha in at the age of thirty-three, full of promise, but without accomplishing a style for himself.

Works

• Other Work

  • Musikalische Nebenstunden

    (or two violins, two violas, and bass)

    1670

  • Buß- und Communionlieder mit 5 und mehr Stimmen

  • Deutsche geistliche Madrigalien mit 2—6 Stimmen

    1675

  • Sonaten, Präludien, Allemanden etc. auf französische Art

    1675