Sigismund Salminger (ca. 1500 in

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– ca. 1554) was a former Franciscan who was baptised by

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and married. Having just arrived in Augsburg the second time he became a leader of the Augsburg

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in 1526, before imprisonment in 1527, and finally recantation and release in 1530. His name also appeared as Sigmund Salminger, Sigismund Salblinger, and Sigismund Slablinger. He remained in Augsburg after his release and rehabilitation, penning several German hymns. In 1539 Augsburg's

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family arranged for Salminger to be granted a printer's license. Among his editions the most notable was that in 1548, which Salminger sponsored, edited, and published the works of the

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composers Cornelius Canis, Thomas Crecquillon, Nicolas Payen and Jean L'Héritier as a tribute to the

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emperor

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- as ''Cantiones selectissimae quatuor vocum, ab eximiis et praestantibus caesareae maiestatis capellae musicis.'' This was the first time Payen had been published, and spread the reputation of Charles' chapel further across Europe.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Salminger, Sigmund 1500s births 1550s deaths German Anabaptists Clergy from Munich German printers German Protestant hymnwriters German Roman Catholic hymnwriters 16th-century hymnwriters