Sequentia magna canta biography

Early music concerts are a form of time travel.

Sequentia magna canta biography

With “Gregorius—The Holy Sinner,” Music Before 1800 transported the audience to medieval Germany on Sunday afternoon at Manhattan’s Corpus Christi Church. The guide was Sequentia, the innovative ensemble for medieval music co-founded by Benjamin Bagby and the late Barbara Thornton in 1977. 

Gregorius is an epic poem by Hartmann von Aue, of whom little is known, except that he was a well-educated Swabian knight conversant in French and Latin.

Active in the early decades of the thirteenth century, Hartmann is one of the best-known poets of the German Middle Ages and the author of epics dealing with the ideals of courtly love or the Crusades. 

Gregorius is the story of a nobleman from Aquitaine who is the child of an incestuous relationship between brother and sister.

The baby is put out to sea in a small boat with gold and a note detailing his aristocratic parentage but survives and thrives. In late adolescence, Grego