Hans Neusidler (1508-1563) was a German composer and lutenist of the Renaissance.
Neusidler was born in Pressburg (today Bratislava, Slovakia) and first enters the historical record in 1530, when he settled in Nuremberg, Germany. He was issued a residence permit by the city council in February and married there in September. In April 1531 he became a citizen and soon after bought a house on the Zotenberg. He taught lute there in 1530s, publishing eight books of lute music between 1536 and 1549, and also went into business as a lute maker by 1550. He fathered thirteen children with his first wife, which resulted in his having enormous financial troubles; he eventually sold his house to pay his debts. In January 1556 his wife died, and he remarried five months later; his second wife bore him four more children before her death in August 1562. Neusidler died in Nuremberg.
Hans's sons, Melchior Neusidler (1531-1590) and Konrad Neusidler (1541-1604) were also well-known lutenists and composers.
Neusidler , along with Hans Judenkunig and Hans Gerle, was one of the most important German lutenists. His eight publications feature intabulations of German songs, French chansons, Italian madrigals, dance pieces and preludes of an improvisatory nature. Most of the works are in three parts, but there are two-part pieces for beginners and a faw four-part arrangements in two of his publications. He republished popular works with newer arrangements in his later books. the initial 1536 publication, which was beginner's collection, opens with a written introduction to lute playing which gives insight into contemporaneous performance practice.
A somethat infamous piece is "Der Juden Tanz", often cited as an example of bitonality "not lacking a touch of satire". It was first transcribed in "Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Ôsterreich" and appears in Davison & Apel's Historical Anthology of Music as a melody in a sort of diminished D# accompanied by an E/B drone.
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