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125, 1900. As a young man he entered Kistner's music publishing house in Leipzig, advancing to the position of managing clerk; here he already began publishing the 'Signale für die musikalische Welt,' a trial number appearing in Dec., 1842; 1st regular number was issued on Jan. 1, 1843. This was one of the most important German music periodicals of the 19th century; it included reports of musical events, special articles, and correspondence from the music centers of the world; many celebrated musicians contributed to it, among them Hans von Bülow. Senff remained editor of the 'Signale' until his death, and publication continued (with a brief interruption in 1917-18) until 1941 (after 1907 by Simrock). Senff founded his own publishing business in 1847; his catalogue included original publications of works by Schumann, Liszt, Anton Rubinstein, Raff, Franz, etc. His niece, Marie Senff, managed the firm until 1907, when she sold it and the 'Signale' to Simrock of Berlin.
3Senfl (zehn-fl), Ludwig, important church composer of the Renaissance; b. Zürich, c. 1490; d. Munich, early in 1543. His father was a singer from Freiburg-im-Breisgau; the family name may have been Senfl, Säntli, Säntly, Senfel, etc., and the ultimate origin undoubtedly German, although Ludwig Senfl was known under the appellation Schweizer (the Swiss). As a small child, from 1495, he sang in the imperial court chapel; from 1504 he was in Zürich, and shortly afterwards went to Constance, where he was a pupil of Isaac; he was Isaac's assistant at St. Ann's Church, Augsburg, and also sang in the court chapel of Maximilian I; after Isaac's death (1517), Senfl completed his teacher's Choralis Constantinus and became his successor as chamber composer; remained in Augsburg for some time after Maximilian's death (1519), and received a stipend from Charles V; edited the historically important Liber selectarum cantionum (1520), which was one of the earliest books with musical notation publ. in Germany. In 1523 he settled in Munich as 'intonator' at the Bavarian court chapel; his fame grew; he was referred to by an early contemporary as 'prince of all German music.' There is extant a letter written to Senfl by Martin Luther, dated Oct. 4, 1530, containing high praise of the composer (reprinted in F. A. Beck's Dr. M. Luthers Gedanken über die Musik, Berlin, 1828). —Publ. works: 5 Salutationes Domini nostri Hiesu Christi (motets in 4 voices, Nuremberg, 1526); Varia carminum genera, quibus tum Horatius tum alii egregii poetae … harmonius composita, for 4 voices (Nuremberg, 1534; 9 Odes are in P. Hofhaimer's Harmonie poeticae, 1539); Magnificat octo tonorum, for 4-5 voices (Nuremberg, 1537); 81 numbers by Senfl are in the collection 121 neue Lieder (Nuremberg, 1534), and 64 numbers in 115 guter newer Liedlein (Nuremberg, 1544); single compositions in various collections of the period (for a list, see Eitner's Bibliographie, Berlin, 1877, and vol. IV of the 'Publikationen älterer … Musikwerke'). Magnificats and a selection of 12 motets were publ. by Th. Kroyer in vol. III, 2 of 'Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Bayern.' Many MSS (sacred and secular vocal works) are in the Munich Library. Some songs have been publ. in Jöde's Chorbuch, and in 'Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst' (vol. 34, ed. by J. Wolf); Weltliche Lieder for 4-part mixed chorus were publ. by Willi Schuh (Zürich, 1929); motets are in Schering's Geschichte der Musik in Beispielen (Nos. 74, 84-86); etc. 7 Masses were edited by E. Löhner and O. Ursprung for the 'Reichsdenkmale deutscher Musik' (Leipzig, 1936), and this was taken over the following year by the 'Schweizerische Musikforschende Gesellschaft' as vol. I of the collected works of Senfl (Basel, 1937-40; vol. II, Deutsche Lieder a 4-6; vol. III, motets; vol. IV, Deutsche Lieder a 4-7; vol. V, Deutsche Lieder a 4-6, publ. in 1949).—Cf. Th. Kroyer, Ludwig Senfl und sein Motettenstil (Munich, 1902); H. J. Moser, Instrumentalismen bei Ludwig Senfl, in 'J. Wolf-Festschrift' (1929); H. J. Moser, Der Altmünchner Tonmeister Ludwig Senfl, in 'Süddeutsche Monatshefte' (1930; p. 531); E. Löhner, Die Messen von Ludwig Senfl (Lichtensteig, 1938); H. Birtner, Sieben Messen von Ludwig Senfl, in 'Archiv für Musikforschung' (1942); see also G. Reese, Music in the Renaissance (N.Y., 1954; pp. 689-90).
5Senilov (seh-nē'-lov), Vladimir Alexeyevitch, Russian composer; b. Viatka, Aug. 8, 1875; d. Petrograd, Sept. 18, 1918. He was a student of jurisprudence at the Univ. of St. Petersburg; was encouraged by Rimsky-Korsakov to cultivate his natural talent for musical composition, and went to Leipzig, where he studied with Hugo Riemann (1895-1901); continued his studies with Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov at the St. Petersburg Cons., graduating in 1906. His works include a lyric drama, Vassily Buslayev; 1-act opera Hippolytus, after Euripides; In Autumn, symph. poem; Mtziri, symph. poem after Lermontov; Pan, symph. poem; The Scythians, symph. poem; 3 string quar-
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