Matthias Greitter

Matthias Greitter, also Matthäus Greiter, (ca.

1495 – 20 December 1550) was a German priest, cantor and composer.

He became priest and cantor at Strasbourg Cathedral.

In 1538 he accepted a position of music teacher at the Collegium Argentinense (later University of Strasbourg).

In 1549 he moved back to the Catholic religion and founded a Catholic school of singing, but he died the following year in Strasbourg, presumably from the plague.