Composer, organist, folklorist, instrument builder, theologian, philosopher and typographer. It is sometimes called
Caioni, Caian, Kájoni Joannes, Kajoni-Valahus (or Valachus).
He studied music in Cluj-Mănăştur monasteries, Alba-Iulia and Şumuleul Ciuc (1637-1648), with Fenessy Mihály, Bálint Tasnadi (music theory) and Oswaldus (organ). In 1655 he perfected his game-Slovacia organist Tarnovo.
It is a music teacher and organist at the School of the Monastery of Şumuleul Ciuc (1650-1655) and provides various religious responsibilities. He founded a workshop in typography Şumuleul Ciuc. Ioan Căianu restores and builds organs in Transylvania and Moldova, which it collects written folklore and transcribed for organ and virginal.
He participates as a performer, arts events the court of Vasile Lupu, lord of Moldova (1654). It also occurs across the country and abroad. Ioan
Căianu is the author, for didactic purposes, worms, parts and mysteries to content inspired by the Bible.
Humanist encyclopedist avant la lettre, Ioan Căianu is the first to collect folk music of Transylvania and Moldavia. His signature Valahus or Valachus means "Vlach". His codex represents a unique testimony to the musical life in the seventeenth century in this part of Europe.
Sources
Caioni, Caian, Kájoni Joannes, Kajoni-Valahus (or Valachus).
He studied music in Cluj-Mănăştur monasteries, Alba-Iulia and Şumuleul Ciuc (1637-1648), with Fenessy Mihály, Bálint Tasnadi (music theory) and Oswaldus (organ). In 1655 he perfected his game-Slovacia organist Tarnovo.
It is a music teacher and organist at the School of the Monastery of Şumuleul Ciuc (1650-1655) and provides various religious responsibilities. He founded a workshop in typography Şumuleul Ciuc. Ioan Căianu restores and builds organs in Transylvania and Moldova, which it collects written folklore and transcribed for organ and virginal.
He participates as a performer, arts events the court of Vasile Lupu, lord of Moldova (1654). It also occurs across the country and abroad. Ioan
Căianu is the author, for didactic purposes, worms, parts and mysteries to content inspired by the Bible.
Humanist encyclopedist avant la lettre, Ioan Căianu is the first to collect folk music of Transylvania and Moldavia. His signature Valahus or Valachus means "Vlach". His codex represents a unique testimony to the musical life in the seventeenth century in this part of Europe.
Sources
- Viorel Cosma, Muzicieni din România, vol. 1, Editura Muzical, Bucureşti 1989 - ISBN 973-42-0015-1
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