Truid Aagesen was a Danish composer and organist in the service of the Danish king.

Biography

Little is known about Aagesen's early life but his musical mentor and spiritual adviser was Jesuit Father Laurentius Nicolai Norvegus with whom he studied music. Aagesen was appointed organist of the Church of Our Lady

Church of Our Lady (Copenhagen)

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 in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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 on 23 June 1593. In 1600, he went to Prague

Prague

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 as a royal commissioner for the Danish king Christian IV. Between 1609 and 1611, he is supposed to have taught at the court and therefore received subsidies from the royal treasury. In 1613, the Danish king published a letter stating that all men of the "popish" religion must leave Denmark

Denmark

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. Aagesen, who had been suspected of being on the pope's payroll as early as 1604, was informed of a ruling made in the governing body of Copenhagen University on 15 September 1613 that, since he was popishly inclined, he should not be allowed to continue as organist. In 1615, he was replaced by Johan Meincke. After that he seems to have vanished from history but he is known to have lived in Danzig (Gdansk

Gdansk

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) in 1625.

His only known published music is a set of secular Cantiones for three voices which were published in Hamburg

Hamburg

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 in 1608 under his Latinized name, Theodoricus Sistinus. He was also known under the name Trudo Haggaei Malmogiensis.

Works

• Cantiones for three voices (1608)
• Missa Baci amorosi for five voices (unpublished)
• Canon (unpublished)