Werner Fabricius

Fabricius Werner (1633-1679), an organist and composer of note, was born April 10, 1633, at Itzehoe, Holstein.

As a boy he studied music under his father, Albert Fabricius, organist in Flensburg, and Paul Moth, the Cantor there.

He went to the Gymnasium in Hamburg, where Thomas Selle and Heinrich Scheidemann were his teachers in music.

He died Jan. 9, 1679, at Leipzig, forty-five years old, according to the contemporary account of him in Musica Davidica, order Davids Music, bei der Leichbe-stattung des ... Hern Werneri Fabricii ... durch Joh.

[1] This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Grove, Sir George (1908).