Composer Michael Praetorius

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Michael Praetorius

Living place: Germany

Birthday: 15-2-1571

Global rank: #97146

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Who is Composer Michael Praetorius?
Remembered for works like Musae Sioniae (1605-1610) and the goddess of dance and singing (1612), this prominent German composer of the early 17th century is also famous for his 1609 setting of hymn "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming."
A music scholar as well as a composer, he wrote a multi-volume work titled Syntagma Musicum.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After studying philosophy and religion at the University of Frankfurt, he became a church organist and later worked in the court of Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg.

Family life info

Born Michael Schultze to a Lutheran minister father, he spent his early years in Creuzburg, Germany. He died in Wolfenbuttel, Germany on his fiftieth birthday.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Composer Michael Praetorius?
He and fellow German composer Paul Gerhardt both wrote popular church hymns in the 1600s.

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When was Composer Michael Praetorius born?
Michael Praetorius was born in 15-2-1571, death year is , at the age of 453.
Where is Composer Michael Praetorius's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Michael Praetorius was born in Germany. is a Composer, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Michael Praetorius's global rank is 97146 and whose rank is 1273 in list of famous Composer.
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Events in 1571 and 15-2

Birthday Michael Praetorius (15-2) in history

  • Day 15-2 year 1764: The St. Louis was established. But at that time, it was just a French fur trading station.
  • Day 15-2 year 1879: President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
  • Day 15-2 year 1898: USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War.
  • Day 15-2 year 1913: The New York Armory Show opened, introducing America to Picasso, Duchamp, and Matisse.
  • Day 15-2 year 1933: Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami.
  • Day 15-2 year 1965: The Maple Leaf Flag officially became the new national flag of Canada.
  • Day 15-2 year 1989: More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country.
  • Day 15-2 year 2002: Olympics officials resolved the judging scandal by awarding Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, to keep their medal.
  • Day 15-2 year 2003: Millions of protesters around the world demonstrated against the threat of a U.S. war on Iraq.
  • Day 15-2 year 2012: A prison fire in Comayagua, Honduras killed 360.
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