Sigmund Theophil Staden

Sigmund Theophil Staden (6 November 1607 – 30 July 1655) was an important early German composer.

Staden was born in Kulmbach in the Principality of Bayreuth, son of Johann Staden, the founder of the so-called Nuremberg school.

[1] Based in Nuremberg, he was the composer of Seelewig (1644), the first German Singspiel.

The only other works of his that survive are three Friedens-Gesänge from 1651.

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