Antonius Gosswin

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Antonius Gosswin (born around 1546 possibly in Liège; died between 2. June 1597 and 28. October 1598) was a Franco-Flemish composer, singer, organist and conductor of the Renaissance. The name Gosswin was in the 16th. century in the then Netherlands, especially in the Liège region, not uncommon. The then Elector of Saxony confirms Gosswin's Dutch descent in a letter to bass singer Bartholomeus van den Feldt. There is evidence of the composer's marriage in 1566/67. A connection to Orlando di Lasso must have arisen in early years, because he calls him "preferably praeceptor" in his "New German songs", published Nuremberg in 1581. Lasso has worked in the Bavarian court chapel since 1556; music historians expect Gosswin to have acted there as a choir boy. In the ducal court reports, he appears as an old singer in 1558. Although the accounting books there for 1560 to 1567 are incomplete, it is certain that in 1562 an old singer Anthoine made a trip to Frankfurt together with Emperor Maximilian II and his chapel. It is clear from the Munich tax books that an Anthonius Jusswein lived here in 1564, who married a certain Maria Praum at the end of 1566 or the beginning of 1567; the following year 1568 he received Munich's civil rights and became a Kapell member of Prince Wilhelm of Bavaria in 1569. Due to financial problems of the Munich court, he was soon dismissed again, but was again an employee of the chapel in 1570. He received a separate money donation the following year so that

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