Samuel Mareschall (born around the 22nd May 1554 in Tournai; died between the 1st June and 1. November 1640 in Basel) was a Franco-Flemish composer, organist, singer and teacher of the late Renaissance. No information has been passed on about the ancestry, youth and education of Samuel Mareschall. For the years 1576 and 1577, he enrolled at the University of Basel to study. He became organist at Basel Cathedral in 1577 in place of Gregor Meyer, who had been the first Protestant organist there; in the same year, Mareschall was appointed professor musices at the university. In addition, he was employed as a music teacher at the Gymnasium am Münsterplatz and at the Collegium Alumnorum. It was also one of his tasks to hold weekly practice hours ("musices exercitia") for church singing at the cathedral with the students of the grammar school and the alumns. From 1589, he also worked as a cantor at Münster. Marshal called himself an imperial notary; he was also responsible for making doctoral diplomas for the university. He had married the daughter of a Basel preacher, Anna Hertzog, in 1581; eleven children emerged from the marriage. Samuel Mareschall was still the 16th Century in his musical style. century committed. The best-known part of his compositional work is his cantionalism. In 1606, he published two books with psalm settings, which were later reissued several times, "The whole Psalter" and "Psalms of David." These are written in the style of the cantional movement, wher

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