Tielman Susato

Tielman (or Tylman) Susato (c. 1510/15 – after 1570) was a Renaissance composer, instrumentalist and publisher of music in Antwerp.

Biography

While Susato's exact place of birth is unknown, some scholars believe that because of his name—Susato meaning de Soest, of the town of Soest — he may be from the town of that name in Westphalia, or the town of Soest in The Netherlands.

Not much is known about his early life, but he begins appearing in various Antwerp archives of around 1530 working as a calligrapher as well as an instrumentalist: trumpet, flute and tenor pipe are listed as instruments that he owned.

In 1543, he founded the first music publishing house using movable music type in the

Susato also was a prolific composer of instrumental music, and much of it is still recorded and performed today. He produced one book of dance music in 1551, Het derde musyck boexken ... alderhande danserye, composed of pieces in simple but artistic arrangement. Most of these pieces are dance forms (allemandes, galliards, and so forth).

Often Susato dedicated his publications to prominent citizens of the town. Sometimes he devoted an entire volume to the works of one composer (for example

Works

Sources

• Keith Polk (ed.), Tielman Susato and the Music of His Time. Print Culture, Compositional Technique and Instrumental Music in the Renaissance. Hillsdale/N.Y., Pendragon Press 2005,
  ISBN 1-57647-106-3 (partly online
  )
• ISBN 0-393-09530-4
  )
• Articles "Printing and publishing of music," "Tielman Susato," in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. (
  ISBN 1-56159-174-2
  )
• Dansereye 1551, performed by the New London Consort, Philip Pickett, conducting. Decca Record Company, London, 1993.
• Kristine K. Forney, "New Documents on the Life of Tielman Susato, Sixteenth-Century Music Printer and Musician," Revue belge de Musicologie/Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap, Vol. 36/38, (1982 - 1984), pp. 18–52. Published by: Societe Belge de Musicologie.

• Free scores by Tielman Susato in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
• Free scores by Tielman Susato at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
• Score of Le premier Livre des chansons à deux ou à troix parties by Tielman Susato, Anvers 1544

Videos

• Tielman Susato: Rondo 1: pour quoy played by Classical Jam
• Tielman Susato: Bergerette played by Classical Jam