About Sigmund Gottlieb Staden
Lived 1607 – 1655 (aged 47). Sigmund Gottlieb Staden was a German composer.
Sigmund Theophil Staden (6 November 1607 – 30 July 1655) was an important early German composer.
Staden was born in Kulmbach in the Principality of Bayreuth, son of Johann Staden, the founder of the so-called Nuremberg school. Based in Nuremberg, he was the composer of Seelewig (1644), the first German Singspiel. The only other works of his that survive are three Friedens-Gesänge from 1651.
Recordings Seelewig (1644) CPO Friedens-Seufftzer und Jubel-Geschrey - Musik für Den Westfälischen Frieden. Manfred Cordes. CPO 999 571-2 (1997)
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German composer
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Sigmund Gottlieb Staden was born on 6 November 1607 in Kulmbach.
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Sigmund Gottlieb Staden died on 30 July 1655 in Nuremberg.
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Sigmund Gottlieb Staden was a composer.
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Sigmund Gottlieb Staden was German.
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