Sigmund Theophil Staden
German composer
Died when: 47 years 266 days (572 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
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.
Related People
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License