Sebald Heyden | |
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![]() Sebald Heyden | |
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Died | 9 July 1561 | (aged 61)
Education | University of Ingolstadt |
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Organizations | St. Sebald, Nuremberg |
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Sebald Heyden (8 December 1499 – 9 July 1561)[1] was a German musicologist, cantor, theologian, hymn-writer and religious poet. He is perhaps best known for his De arte canendi ("On the Art of Singing", third installment published 1540) which is considered to have had a major impact on scholarship and the teaching of singing to young boys.[2] He wrote hymns such as "O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß". It has been speculated that Heyden was the world's first true musicologist.[3]
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