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Jakob Scheiffelhut
german17th century
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Jakob Scheiffelhut (May 19, 1647 in Augsburg, † July 2, 1709 in Augsburg) was a German musician and composer of the Baroque era. Jakob Scheiffelhut received his musical training in the Augsburg choir of St. Anna with Tobias Kriegsdorfer (1608–1686). He received lessons in “playing an instrument ” from a town piper. In 1666 he was employed as a town piper, with permission to play at weddings or official functions. From 1673 he was instrumental teacher as well as wind and strings in the choir of St. Anna. In 1694 he became the second choir director under cantor Georg Schmezer (1642–1697), to whose successor he tried in 1697 in vain. From 1697 until his death in 1709 he was choir director at the Barfusserkirche. From his two marriages there were seven children . Scheiffelhut's work includes sacred and secular music. The vocal music, some of which is accompanied by instruments, consists mainly of funeral and wedding music. All printed works that were widely circulated in Germany were published in Augsburg. Especially through his collections "Musical Emotions-Ergötzungen", "Lovely Spring Beginning" and "Musicalisches Klee-Blat" he was considered an important German suite composer of the 17th century. He was praised, among others, by the music theorists Johann Mattheson and Wolfgang Caspar Printz in their “ Historical description of the noble art of singing and singing ” (Dresden, 1690). Scheiffelhut was one of the pioneers of French instrumental music in Germany. User-contribut