Kugelmann, Paul (EN)

Kugelmann Paul, *Augsburg, †1580 Königsberg, German trumpeter, music publisher, and composer, brother of Johann. He probably arrived in Königsberg from Nuremberg in 1542, where he became a tubicinator and, in the years 1549–53 and 1557–80, the supervisor of Duke Albrecht’s tubicinators. He published a collection of 121 sacred and secular songs for 3–6 voices: Etliche Deutsche Liedlein…, Königsberg [1558], J. Daubmann. These are mostly arrangements of melodies also known from other sources; 92 arrangements are signed with the name of P. Kugelmann, 2 with H. Kugelmann, and 9 with Melchior Kugelmann. A unique copy preserved in Toruń (M. Kopernik Municipal Library) contains a handwritten appendix, 88 additional works of this type, four of which are signed by complier. A six-part Benedicamus by Paul Kugelmann has also been preserved in manuscript.

Two other brothers of Paul Kugelmann also worked as tubicinators at the court of Duke Albrecht: Christoph – from 1527 until his death in 1531, and Melchior – in the years 1540–1548. Paul Kugelmann’s son Barthel was the town trumpeter in Königsberg from 1567.

Literature: F. Spitta Die Liedersammlung des Paul Kugelmann, in: Gesammelte Studien. Hugo Riemann zum 60. Geburtstage, ed. C. Mennicke, Leipzig 1909, repr. 1965; R. Fuehrer Die Gesangbücher der Stadt Königsberg (von der Reformation bis zur Einführung des Einheitsgesangbuches für Ost- und Westpreussen), Königsberg 1927; J. Müller-Blattau Geschichte der Musik in Ost- und Westpreussen von der Ordenszeit bis zur Gegenwart, Königsberg 1931; M. Federmann Musik und Musikpflege zur Zeit Herzog Albrechts. Zur Geschichte der Königsberger Hofkapelle in den Jahren 1525–1578, Kassel 1932; H. Engel Etliche Teutsche. Liedlein geistlich und weltlich. Kugelmanns Königsberger Sammlung von 1558. Ein Spätling deutschen Gesellschaftsliedes, Königsberg 1937; S. Sejane Music in the Official Life and Court of Courland from the Creation of the Duchy Following the Downfall of the Order of Teutonic Knights to the Death of Duke Jacob, in: Music History Writing and National Culture, ed. U. Lippus, Tallinn 1995; A. Leszczyńska On the Trail of Franciscus de Rivulo – New Clues and Hypotheses, “Musicology Today” IV, 2007; A. Leszczyńska The Königsberg manuscript from the Kugelmann circle, “Journal of the Alamire Foundation” I, 2010.