Jacques Bittner

Jacob Büttner, widely known by the French version of his name Jacques Bittner, (floruit 1680s) was a lutenist and composer of Austro-Bohemian origin.

[3] The 18th century lutenist Ernst Gottlieb Baron described Bittner briefly (although with some inaccuracies) in his 1727 Untersuchung des Instruments der Lauten.

According to Baron, Bittner's music was composed "according to the latest and most galant method of playing the lute at that time.

"[4] The Bittner lute music published in Nuremberg in 1682 has a French title: Pièces de lut.

[4] A second collection of Bittner's music was published in Nuremberg in 1683 under the German title, Galantheste Methode die Laute zu traktieren.