Jörg Brack

Brack [Brakkher, Brachius], Georg [Jörg] (fl 1507 17). German composer. In 1507 he was court composer in Duke Ulrich of Württembergs chapel in Stuttgart. At the same time he held the post of Kapellmeister, at least until Heinrich Finck joined the court chapel in 1510. Brack was apparently retained after the dissolution of the chapel on 11 June 1514, living at this period in a house in Stuttgart that the duke had given him. Probably during 1515 he was visited there by Ornithoparchus, who dedicated to him the second book of his Musicae activae micrologus (Leipzig, 1517). In the dedication he referred to Brack (who had given him advice) as Ducalis cantoriae Wirtenbergensis ductor primarius, praising him and ranking him with Obrecht, Josquin, Isaac and Finck. When the chapel was re-established in 1517 Siess was appointed Kapellmeister, so Brack may already have died.