Background
Agricola was born in Schwiebus in Lower Silesia.
composer music theorist musicologist
Agricola was born in Schwiebus in Lower Silesia.
See Agricola for several other people of the same name. Among Agricola"s other theoretical works is Musica instrumentalis deudsch (1529), a study of musical instruments, and one of the most important works in early organology. And one of the earliest books on the Rudiments of music
Agricola was also the first to harmonize in four parts Martin Luther"s chorale, Ein feste Burg.
