Matthias Greitter

Matthias Greitter, also Matthäus Greiter, (ca. 1495 – 20 December 1550) was a German priest, cantor and composer.

Life[]

Greitter was born in Aichach. He became priest and cantor at Strasbourg Cathedral. In 1524 he joined the new Reformed Church. In 1538 he accepted a position of music teacher at the Collegium Argentinense (later University of Strasbourg). In 1549 he moved back to the Catholic religion and founded a Catholic school of singing, but he died the following year in Strasbourg, presumably from the plague.^[1][2]

Works[]

Sacred works[]

• Domine non secundum, motet, 2 parts, 1545
• Passibus ambiguis/Fortuna desperata, motet, 4 parts
• Christ ist erstanden/Christus surrexit, motet, 5 parts
• 7 psalms
• Kyrie
• Gloria
• Credo
• Alleluia

Secular works[]

• 16 songs, 4–5 parts

References[]

Sources[]

• Moritz Fürstenau (1879), "Greitter, Matthäus", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 9, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 636
• Hans-Christian Müller (1966), "Greiter, Matthäus", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), 7, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 41–42; (full text online)
• Hans-Christian Mueller and Sarah Davies's article in New Grove Dictionary of Music

External links[]

• Free scores by Matthias Greitter at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
• Free scores at the Mutopia Project