# Samuel Besler

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{{short description|German-Polish composer}}
thumb|Plaque in tribute to Samuel Besler in Wrocław
'''Samuel Besler''' (15 December 1574, in [Brieg](/source/Brzeg) – 19 July 1625) was a German composer. He was cantor at St. Bernhardinus, [Breslau](/source/Breslau), in 1602, then rector of the Gymnasium from 1605. As with [Jakob Meiland](/source/Jakob_Meiland) in the generation before him, and [Melchior Vulpius](/source/Melchior_Vulpius) in his own generation, his ''St. Matthew Passion'' follows the model of [Johann Walter](/source/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''

==References==
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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](/source/Polona)
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[https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Marcus_Passion_(Samuel_Besler) St Marcus Passion] at  [Choral Public Domain Library](/source/Choral_Public_Domain_Library) 
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Category:1574 births
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Category:17th-century classical composers
Category:German Baroque composers
Category:German male classical composers
Category:German classical composers
Category:Polish Baroque composers
Category:17th-century male musicians
Category:17th-century German composers

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