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Paul Siefert
Paul Siefert

Paul Siefert (variants: Syfert, Sivert, Sibert) (23 May 1586 - 6 May 1666) was a German composer and organist associated with the North German school. Events 1430 - Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne Events 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance The pipe organ is a Musical instrument that produces sound when pressurized air (wind is driven through a series of pipes, controlled by a keyboard The 17th century organ composers of Germany can be divided into two primary schools the north German school and the south German school (sometimes a third school

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Biography

He was born in Danzig to his father's second wife and named after his father (died 1604), who was a procurator. Gdańsk ( Polish pronunciation; 'Danzig', Gduńsk Gedania Dantiscum is the City at the centre of the fourth-largest Metropolitan area in Poland The Danzig city council gave scholarships to Samuel Scheidt and him to study with Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in Amsterdam from 1607 to 1610; in the autumn of that year, he returned home where he became assistant organist of the Marienkirche. A city council is a form of Local government, usually covering a City or other Urban area, such as a Town. A scholarship is an award of access to an institution or a financial aid award for an individual student scholar for the purpose of furthering their Education Samuel Scheidt (baptized November 3 1587 &ndash March 24 1654 was a German Composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (April or May 1562 &ndash October 16 1621 was a Dutch Composer, Organist, and Pedagogue whose work straddled the Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west His application to become principal organist of the church after Cajus Schmiedtlein died in March 1611 failed due to complaints about his arrogance and style of performance.

He moved to Königsberg in 1611 to take up the post of organist of the principal church in the 'Altstadt', and became court organist at Warsaw in 1616. Warsaw (Warszawa; also known by other names) is the Capital and Largest city of Poland. He returned to Danzig in 1623 to become principal organist, where he remained until his death; he failed in an application for the post of Kapellmeister in 1627 after the death of Andreas Hakenberger, who was succeeded by Kaspar Förster. Kapellmeister (kəˈpɛlˌmaɪstər is a German word designating a person in charge of music-making He did not lead a serene life; he became sidelined at the Warsaw court, and had long-running feuds with Kaspar Förster, choirmaster of the Marienkirche from 1627 to 1652, and Marco Scacchi, Polish court choirmaster from 1628 to 1649. Conducting is the act of directing a Musical performance by way of visible gestures Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland

Music

His first book of Psalmen Davids consists of two concertos for three and four voices and twelve settings for four and five voices of material drawn from the Calvinist Goudimel-Lobwasser psalter of the Reformed Church. Calvinism (sometimes called the Reformed tradition, the Reformed faith, or Reformed theology) is a theological system and an approach to the A Psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms and which often contains other devotional material The Reformed churches are a group of Christian Protestant Denominations formally characterized by a similar Calvinist system of doctrine historically The form used is that of the chorale motet, the instrumental parts having little significance, mainly doubling the voices. A chorale was originally a Hymn of the Lutheran church sung by the entire congregation In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions Psalmorum Davidicorum II consists of fifteen psalms for four to eight voices, a concerto for four voices, and an eight part instrumental canzona; the works are antecedents of the concertato chorale motet and the chorale cantata; there are instrumental preludes and ritornellos, and alternating sections of solo and tutti passages. In music a canzona (also Canzone) was a 16th-century multipart vocal setting of a literary canzone and a 16th - and 17th-century instrumental A cantata (derived from the Italian word 'cantare' meaning 'to sing' is a vocal composition with an instrumental Accompaniment and often In Baroque music, ritornello was the word for a recurring passage for Orchestra in the first or final movement of a Solo concerto or Aria

His keyboard works bear some similarity to Sweelinck, but are not generally of a high quality. A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a Musical keyboard. The highly ornamented line is usually played by the right hand with the chorale underneath. This texture is interrupted by episodes exploiting effects of harmony and colour.

Surviving works

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