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Christoph Löffelholtz
1+ albums
german16th century
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Christoph Löffelholtz von Colberg (1572–1619) was a Nuremberg patrician—trained and active in civic life as a jurist and councillor—who is remembered in music history as a collector and custodian of repertory rather than as a documented professional composer. His name is attached to a major late-16th-century keyboard source, the Orgeltabulatur preserved today as Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Mus.ms. 40034, a richly mixed manuscript of intabulated vocal pieces and dances that reflects the practical keyboard culture of its time. Reference accounts describe the book as largely lacking composer attributions, which makes it best understood as a window onto what was played and recopied in elite urban circles, not as a catalogue of authored works. In modern listening culture his name sometimes appears on recordings as a convenient label for music transmitted by the “Löffelholtz tablature,” pointing back to the source and its repertory. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.