Samuel Besler

{{short description|German-Polish composer}} thumb|Plaque in tribute to Samuel Besler in Wrocław '''Samuel Besler''' (15 December 1574, in Brieg – 19 July 1625) was a German composer. He was cantor at St. Bernhardinus, Breslau, in 1602, then rector of the Gymnasium from 1605. As with Jakob Meiland in the generation before him, and Melchior Vulpius in his own generation, his ''St. Matthew Passion'' follows the model of Johann Walter's Lutheran ''historia'', but with more elaborate choral numbers.<ref>Howard E. Smither ''History of the Oratorio: Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque ...'' 2012 p.5 "This Passion by Walter was a model for numerous other sixteenth- and seventeenth-century works, including an anonymous St. Matthew Passion (attributed to Walter) in a manuscript of 1573 and the St. Matthew Passions by Jakob Meiland (1570), Samuel Besler (1611), and Melchior Vulpius (1613)"</ref>

==Works== *St Marcus Passion 1612 *''St Matthew Passion'' *''St John Passion''

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==External links == * [https://polona.pl/search/?query=Samuel_Besler&filters=creator:%22Besler,_Samuel_(1574--1625)%22,public:1,hasTextContent:0 Scores by Samuel Besler] in digital library Polona * [https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Marcus_Passion_(Samuel_Besler) St Marcus Passion] at Choral Public Domain Library {{Authority control}}

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