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)


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HERR GOTT VATERSamuel Besler, 1574 - 1625 (Composer)411122 34555 36717
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