Tuotilo orTutiloOSB (died 915) was a Frankish monk at the BenedictineAbbey of Saint Gall. He was a composer, and according toEkkehard IV a century later, also a poet, musician, painter and sculptor.^[1] Varioustrope melodies can be assigned to Tuotilo, but works of other mediums are attributed with less certainty. He was a student ofIso of St. Gallen [de] and friends with the fellow monkNotker the Stammerer.^[1]

Born inAlemannic Germany,^{[n 1]} he is said to have been a large and powerfully built man, and an excellent boxer. Always cheerful and in excellent spirits, he was a general favorite.^[2] He received his education at St. Gall's, fromIso of St. Gallen [de] and the Irishman Moengall, teachers in the monastic school.^[3] He was the friend ofNotker of St. Gall, with whom he studied music under Moengal. Educated at theAbbey of St. Gall, he remained to become a monk there.^[1]

Tuotilo was a composer, poet, musician,painter andsculptor.^[1]

According to the British librarian John W Bradley, Tuotilo was said to be "a good speaker, had a fine musical voice, was a capital carver in wood, and an accomplished illuminator. Like most of the earlier monks of St. Gall, he was a clever musician, equally skillful with the trumpet and the harp. Besides being teacher of music in the upper school to the sons of the nobility, he was a classical tutor and could preach both in Latin and Greek. His chief accomplishments, however, were music and painting, and on these his reputation mainly rests. He was much in request and by the permission of his abbot travelled to distant places. One of his celebrated sculptures was the image of the Blessed Virgin for the cathedral at Metz. In addition, he was a mathematician and astronomer, and constructed an astrolabe or orrery, which showed the courses of the planets".^[2]

Tuotilo played several instruments, including the harp. The history of theecclesiasticaldrama begins with the trope sung as Introit of theMass onEaster Sunday. It has come down to us in a St. Gallenmanuscript dating from the time of Tuotilo. According to the works catalogue ofEkkehard IV,Casus sancti Galli, Tuotilo is the author of fivetropes; further research ascribed five additional tropes to him.^[4] Some of them are available in modern editions.^[5]

James Midgley Clark points out that the most interesting items at the St. Gallen Abbey in Switzerland are the ivory tablets attributed to Tuotilo, which form the cover of theEvangelium Longum.^[6] Tuotilo'spaintings can be found atKonstanz,Metz, St. Gallen, andMainz.^{[citation needed]}

Tuotilo was buried at a chapel dedicated toSaint Catherine in St. Gall, which was later renamed for him.^[7] His feast day is celebrated on 28 March.^[8]

• Planchart, Alejandro Enrique (2001)."Tuotilo".Grove Music Online. Oxford:Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.28589.ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.(subscription,Wikilibrary access, orUK public library membership required)

• Eggenberger, Christoph (1985). "Ein malerisches Werk Tuotilos? Die St. Galler Psalterillustration der Karolingerzeit" [A painting by Tuotilo? The St. Gallen Psalter illustration of the Carolingian period].Unsere Kunstdenkmaler (in German).36:243–251.
• Rankin, Susan (1991). "Notker und Tuotilo: schöpferische Gestalter in einer neuen Zeit" [Notker and Tuotilo: creative designers in a new era].Schweizer Jb für Musikwissenschaft (in German).11:17–42.
• Rankin, Susan (1993). "From Tuotilo to the First Manuscripts: the Shaping of a Trope Repertory at Saint Gall". In Arlt, Wulf; Björkvall, Gunilla (eds.).Recherches nouvelles sur les tropes liturgiques: Corpus troporum [New research on liturgical tropes: Corpus troporum]. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. pp. 395–413.ISBN 978-91-22-01571-0.

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