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Sethus Calvisius or Setho Calvisio, originally Seth Kalwitz (21 February 1556 – 24 November 1615), was a German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher of the late Renaissance.

Sethus Calvisius
Sethus Calvisius

Biography


He was born into a peasant family at Gorsleben in present-day Thuringia. By the exercise of his musical talents he earned money enough for the start, at Helmstedt, of a university career, which the aid of a wealthy patron enabled him to continue at Leipzig. He became director of the music-school at Pforta in 1572. In 1594 he was transferred to Leipzig in the same post, including directing the Thomanerchor at the Thomaskirche.[1] He retained this post until his death in Leipzig, despite the offers successively made to him of mathematical professorships at Frankfurt and Wittenberg.[2]

Calvisius was also a significant astronomer: in his Opus Chronologicum (Leipzig, 1605, 7th ed. 1685) he expounded a system based on the records of nearly 300 eclipses. An ingenious, though ineffective, proposal for the reform of the calendar was put forward in his Elenchus Calendarii Gregoriani (Frankfurt, 1612); and he published a book on music, Melodiae condendae ratio (Erfurt, 1592).[2] He composed choral pieces including Unser Leben währet siebzig Jahr.[1]


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Notes


  1. Motette in der Thomaskirche. Sonnabend, den 20 September 2008. Leipzig: Merkur.
  2. Chisholm 1911.

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[de] Sethus Calvisius

Sethus Calvisius, eigentlich Seth Kalwitz (* 21. Februar 1556 in Gorsleben; † 24. November 1615 in Leipzig), war ein Komponist, Musiktheoretiker und Kantor in Schulpforta und Leipzig sowie Astronom und Mathematiker.
- [en] Sethus Calvisius

[it] Sethus Calvisius

Sethus Calvisius, nome latinizzato di Seth Kalwitz, (Gorsleben, 21 febbraio 1556 – Lipsia, 24 novembre 1615), è stato un compositore, astronomo e matematico tedesco.[1]

[ru] Кальвизий, Зет

Зет Кальви́зий (лат. Sethus Calvisius, настоящее имя Зет Кальвиц, нем. Seth Kalwitz; 21 февраля 1556 (1556-02-21), Горслебен, Тюрингия — 24 ноября 1615, Лейпциг) — немецкий теоретик музыки, историк, астроном, филолог, композитор.



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