Leonhardt (alternatively spelled "Leonhard" or "Leonhart") Schröter (or Schroeter) was born in Torgau.
[2][3] He is thought to have died sometime around the year 1601, based on an inscription in Friedrich Weissensee’s “Opus Melicum” from 1602, which describes Schröter's recent death.
[1] Schröter composed carols, hymns, motets, a passion, psalms, and a Te Deum which date from 1571 to 1587.
[3] His style has been described as having the “greatest simplicity”, but also the “highest grandeur,” simultaneously simple and sublime.
[2] His choral settings of psalms, while not numerous, are considered an "important contribution" to the Protestant motet tradition.