Samuel Besler (15 December 1574, in

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– 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 Jakob Meiland (Senftenberg, 1542-Hechingen, 31 December 1577) was a German composer. His ''St. Matthew Passion'' follows the model of Johann Walter's first Lutheran passion ''historia'' (c. 1530) but has more elaborate choral numbers.Howard E. Smit ...

in the generation before him, and

Melchior Vulpius Melchior Vulpius (c. 1570 in Wasungen – 7 August 1615 in Weimar) was a German singer and composer of church music. Vulpius came from a poor craftsman's family. He studied at the local school in Wasungen (in Thuringia) with Johannes Steu ...

in his own generation, his ''St. Matthew Passion'' follows the model of

Johann Walter Johann Walter, also known as ''Johann Walther'' or ''Johannes Walter'' (original name: ''Johann Blankenmüller'') (1496 – 25 March 1570) was a Lutheran composer and poet during the Reformation period. Life Walter was born in Kahla, in present- ...

's Lutheran ''historia'', but with more elaborate choral numbers.Howard E. Smither ''History of the Oratorio: Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque ...'' 2012 p.5 "This Passion by Walter was a model for numerous other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century works, including an anonymous St. Matthew Passion (attributed to Walter) in a manuscript of 1573 and the St. Matthew Passions by Jakob Meiland (1570), Samuel Besler (1611), and Melchior Vulpius (1613)"

Works

*''St Matthew Passion'' *''St John Passion''

References

External links

Scores by Samuel Besler
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