[+] Rectanus, Hans. "'Ich erkenne dich, Josquin, du herrlicher...:' Bemerkungen zu thematischen Verwandtschaften zwischen Josquin, Palestrina und Pfitzner." In Renaissance-Studien: Helmuth Osthoff zum 80. Geburtstag, ed. Ludwig Finscher, 211-22. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1979.
In his opera Palestrina, Hans Pfitzner uses three themes from Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli. While two of them (from the "Kyrie" and from the "Christe") are simple quotations, the one from the "Sanctus" is developed further until it exactly represents the characteristic scale motive from Josquin's well known instrumental piece La Bernardina, which Pfitzner, however, most probably did not know. This development covers the final section of the dramatically important "inspiration scene" from Act I. Rectanus explains the correspondence with a mysterious relationship between the composers concerned, with what he calls an unio mystica or Sternenfreundschaft.
Works: Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli,Missa Benedicta es (212-13); Pfitzner: Palestrina; Ghiselin-Verbonnet: L'Alfonsina (216-17); Josquin: Mi Larés vous (216-17); Monteverdi: Raggi, D'ovè il mio ben (216-17).
Index Classifications: 1900s
Contributed by: Andreas Giger
