page_title: Arnolt Schlick
section_title: Music
hierarchical_section_title: Arnolt Schlick / List of works / Music
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Stadt Heidelberg
context_page_description: Arnolt Schlick was a German organist, lutenist and composer of the Renaissance. He is grouped among the composers known as the Colorists. He was most probably born in Heidelberg and by 1482 established himself as court organist for the Electorate of the Palatinate. Highly regarded by his superiors and colleagues alike, Schlick played at important historical events, such as the election of Maximilian I as King of the Romans, and was widely sought after as organ consultant throughout his career. The last known references to him are from 1521; the circumstances of his death are unknown.
  Schlick was blind for much of his life, possibly from birth. However, that did not stop him from publishing his work. He is best known for Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten, the first German treatise on building and playing organs. This work, highly influential during the 16th century, was republished in 1869 and is regarded today as one of the most important books of its kind. Schlick's surviving compositions include Tabulaturen etlicher lobgesang, a collection of organ and lute music, and a few pieces in manuscript.
context_section_description: Tabulaturen etlicher lobgesang und lidlein uff die orgeln un lauten ("Tablatures of Several Canticles and Songs for the Organ and Lute", Mainz, 1512):
  Organ works: Salve Regina, Ad te clamamus, Eya ergo advocata, O pia, O dulcis Maria, Pete quid vis, Hoe losteleck, Benedictus, Primi toni, Maria zart, Christe, Da pacem (1), Da pacem (2), Da pacem (3).
  Works for lute: Mein M. ich hab, Cupido hat, Hertzliebstes pild, Nach lust hab ich, Vil hinderlist, Möcht es gesein, Mein lieb ist weg, Ich schrei und rüeff, Metzkin Isaack, Philips zwölffpot, Nun hab ich all mein tag gehört, Maria zart, All Ding mit radt, Wer gnad durch klaff, Weg wart dein art.
  Letter to Bernardo Clesio (late 1520–early 1521):
  Ascendo ad Patrem meum a 2, for organ
  Ascendo ad Patrem meum a 10, for organ
  Gaude Dei genitrix, 8 settings a 3–5, for organ
  2 songs, 4vv
  Mi-mi, fragment, possibly from a lost mass setting (only soprano and bass parts survive from a 3- (or more) voice setting)
caption: Heidelberg as it appears today. Very little remains from Schlick's time: the city was almost completely destroyed in the late 17th century, and parts of the castle were already ruined by the late 16th.
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