Sigmund Theophil Staden

German composer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroGerman composer
PlacesGermany
wasMusician Composer
Work fieldMusic
Gender
Male
Birth6 November 1607, Kulmbach
Death30 July 1655Nuremberg (aged 47 years)
The details

Biography

Sigmund Theophil Staden (6 November 1607 – 30 July 1655) was an important early German composer.
Staden was born in Kulmbach in the Principality of Bayreuth, son of Johann Staden, the founder of the so-called Nuremberg school. Based in Nuremberg, he was the composer of Seelewig (1644), the first German Singspiel. The only other works of his that survive are three Friedens-Gesänge from 1651.

Recordings

  • Seelewig (1644) CPO
  • Friedens-Seufftzer und Jubel-Geschrey - Musik für Den Westfälischen Frieden. Manfred Cordes. CPO 999 571-2 (1997)

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