YEARBOOK OF THE ALAMIRE FOUNDATION

148 PETER BERGQUIST
RISM NO. TITLE
Berg & Neuber / Theodor Gerlach / Katharina Gerlach, Nuremberg
1562a Sacrae cantiones, a5
1564 1-5 Thesaurus musicus, 5 vols., a8, 7, 6, 5, 4
1567b Magnificat octo tonorum, a6, 5, 4
1568a Selectissimae cantiones, a6, 7, 8 [46 motets]
1568b Selectissimae cantiones, a5, 4 [50 motets]
1579a Selectissimae cantiones, a6, 7, 8, ed. Leonhard Lechner [57 motets]
1579b Altera pars selectissimarum cantionum, a5, 4, ed. Leonhard Lechner
[71 motets]
Le Roy & Ballard, Paris
1564b Primus liber concentuum sacrorum, a5, 6
1565a Modulorum … secundum volumen, a4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10
1573b Moduli sex, septem et duodecim vocum, a6, 7, 12
Gardano, Venice
1565b Sacrae cantiones liber I, a5 = RISM 1562a, Nuremberg
1566c Sacrae cantiones liber II, a5, 6
1566d Sacrae cantiones liber III, a5, 6
1566e Sacrae cantiones liber IV, a6, 8
Table 1. Printed sources referred to in the present article.
Large collections such as the Selectissimae cantiones were no novelty at Gerlach’s
publishing house. 2 His firm was the successor to that of Johann vom Berg (Montanus)
and Ulrich Neuber, which began operations in Nuremberg in 1541. Their large output
included many music titles, including some multi-volume collections of polyphony
that were significantly larger even than the 1568 Selectissimae cantiones. Berg died
in 1563, and the firm then operated as ‘Ulrich Neuber and Berg’s Heirs’. In 1565
Berg’s widow Katharina married Theodor Gerlach, an employee of the firm, which
then became known as ‘Gerlach and Neuber’. In 1566 Neuber left the firm and established
his own printing house, and the Gerlachs then continued the former house of
Berg and Neuber as ‘Gerlach and Berg’s Heirs’, the colophon that appeared on the
Selectissimae cantiones in 1568. Theodor Gerlach died in 1575, after which Katharina
operated the firm as ‘Katharina Gerlach and Berg’s Heirs’ until her death in 1592.
She appears to have been active in the management of the firm for many years before
she took sole charge of it after Theodor’s death.
2 This account of the history of the Gerlach publishing house is based largely on S. JACKSON, Berg
and Neuber: Music Printers in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg, Ph.D. diss., City University of New
York, 1998.