Johann Staden

• Name — Johann Staden • Born — 2 July 1581 (baptised) • Birthplace — Nuremberg • Died — 15 November 1634 (buried) • Place of death — Nuremberg

He was the son of Hans Staden and Elisabeth Löbelle. The exact date of his birth is unknown; it is believed that he was born in Nuremberg in 1581 (the date on the only surviving portrait) and records show that a certain Johannes Starnn was baptised in July 1581. At 18 Staden was already quite famous and serving as organist of one of the city churches; by 1604 he was employed as court organist in Bayreuth; he got married the same year. In 1605 the court moved to Kulmbach, where Staden remained until 1610, publishing two collections of secular songs, Neue teutsche Lieder (1606) and Neue teutsche geistliche Gesäng (1609). He may have visited Bayreuth again in 1610 and returned to Nuremberg by 1611, the year his daughter was baptised there. In June 1612 he left Nuremberg again to succeed Hans Leo Hassler as court organist in Dresden. He stayed until around 1614/15, becoming organist at Nuremberg's Spitalkirche on 20 June 1616. Later that year he moved to the Lorenzkirche, succeeding Kaspar Hassler. Finally, in 1618 he accepted the most prestigious musical position in Nuremberg: organist at the Church of Saint Sebald (Sebalduskirche). He held that post until his death in 1634.

• Neue deutsche Lieder samt etlichen Galliarden (1609) • Venuskränzlein, gewidmet Markgraf Christian von Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1610) • Harmoniae sacrae pro festis praecipuis totius anni (1616) • Neue Pavanen, Galliarden, Couranten, Intraden und Canzonen (1618) • Harmoniae novae sacrarum cantionum (1628) • Hertzens-trosts-Musica (1630) • Musicalischer Freuden- und Andachtswecker (1630) • Trauerlied zum Tode Gustav II. Adolfs von Schweden (1632) • Operum Musicorum Posthumorum (1643) • Neue deutsche Lieder nach Art der Villanellen • Neue teutsche geistliche Gesäng • Hauß-Music • Geistlicher Music-Klang • Davids-Harpfe