Samuel Besler

Short Name: Samuel Besler
Full Name: Besler, Samuel, 1574-1625
Birth Year: 1574
Death Year: 1625

Samuel Besler, born at Brieg, Silesia, Dec 15, 1574, died in Breslau, July 191, 1625. Rector of the Gymnasium zum Heilgen Geist, Breslau, 1605. A large collection of his compositions are preserved in the library of St. Bernhardinus, Bresalu, among which is a Passion after St. John printed by Baumann.

Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)

Wikipedia Biography

Samuel Besler (15 December 1574, in Brzeg – 19 July 1625) was a German-Polish composer. He was cantor at St. Bernhardinus, Breslau, in 1602, then rector of the Gymnasium from 1605. As with Jakob Meiland in the generation before him, and Melchior Vulpius in his own generation, his St. Matthew Passion follows the model of Johann Walter's Lutheran historia, but with more elaborate choral numbers.
Wikipedia Biography

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HERR GOTT VATERSamuel Besler, 1574 - 1625 (Composer)511122 34555 36717
HURSLEYS. Besler, 1574-1625 (Composer)111117 12321 3333

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