Samuel Scheidt
(November 3, 1587 - March 24, 1654)
Born in Halle (the city that gave birth also to Georg Friedrich Handel) was first (1603) organist at the Moritzkirche, then moved to Amsterdam to study with Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1607 to 1609), while the most important musician and composer. After returning to Halle, he became organist in the royal chapel of the Margrave Christian Wilhelm of Brandenburg. His knowledge makes him the so-called musical instruments in Bayreuth with Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz in 1618, to try and change a body. Always with Praetorius, previously, had become the protagonist of a challenge (1614) among the players, which is not uncommon at the time, organized to test the musical abilities of the two challengers. Unlike other musicians, remained in their lands during the Thirty Years' War, trying to straddle between odd jobs and teaching. In 1624 he published his important Tablatures Nova, a collection of music for organ and clavichord which presented for the first time on the writing staff. In 1627 he married Helena Magdalena Keller and had seven children, only 2 of them survived the epidemic of plague in 1636. With the flight of the Margrave in front of the troops of Wallenstein (1628) lost his job at the court, but he became Director musices in three churches in Halle. After ups and downs that saw the return of Catholicism in his hometown in 1644 and although he had to press 70 symphonies, died in complete poverty in 1654.
(from Wikipedia)
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