Jacob Praetorius the Elder
Jacob Praetorius (I) or Jacob Praetorius the Elder (c. 1520 in Magdeburg – 1586 in Hamburg) was a German organist and composer. He was the father of Hieronymus Praetorius and the grandfather of Jacob Praetorius the Younger, both also composers.
Life[]
Little is known about his life. He probably studied under Martin Agricola. From 1555 until his death he was the organist and church-composer at two churches in Hamburg. In 1554 he published a collection of choral works. In 1566 he published a collection of 200 works by Dutch and German composers under the title Opus musicum excellens et novum - only one of those works (a Te Deum in four parts) is by Praetorius himself, of which only the first part has survived. A Veni in hortum meum a 4 has also survived, either by Jacob Praetorius the Elder or his grandson Jacob Praetorius the Younger.
External links[]
- Works by and about Jacob Praetorius (I) in the Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
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- 1520 births
- 1586 deaths
- German male organists
- German classical composers
- 16th-century composers
- Musicians from Magdeburg
- Classical composers of church music
- Renaissance composers
- German male classical composers
- German composer stubs