Samuel Scheidt

The most important works of this organist, organ builder and composer was his "Tabulatura Nova" written in 1624. It is the first open-scored keyboard music published in Germany. It no longer employed the note-name tabulation or the six line staffs used in both Germany and England during that time.He served in Halle, Germany the majority of his life even during the thirty years war and suffering through poverty for a number of years and the plague during the 1630s years later. He was the court Kapellmeister from 1609 until 1620 the duties of which continued once again in 1638. ...