Sigismund Salminger (ca. 1500 in

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– ca. 1554) was a former Franciscan who was baptised by Hans Hut and married. Having just arrived in Augsburg the second time he became a leader of the Augsburg Anabaptists in 1526, before imprisonment in 1527, and finally recantation and release in 1530. His name also appeared as Sigmund Salminger, Sigismund Salblinger, and Sigismund Slablinger. He remained in Augsburg after his release and rehabilitation, penning several German hymns. In 1539 Augsburg's

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family arranged for Salminger to be granted a printer's license. Among his editions the most notable was that in 1548, which Salminger sponsored, edited, and published the works of the Capilla Flamenca composers

Cornelius Canis Cornelius Canis (also de Hondt, d'Hondt) (between 1500 and 1510 – 15 February 1562) was a Franco-Flemish composer, singer, and choir director of the Renaissance, active for much of his life in the ''Grande Chapelle'', the imperial Habsburg music ...

Thomas Crecquillon Thomas Crecquillon or Créquillon ( – probably early 1557) was a Franco-Flemish school composer of the Renaissance. While his place of birth is unknown, it was probably within the region loosely known at the time as the Low Countries, and he pro ...

Nicolas Payen Nicolas Payen (also Nicolas Colin) (c. 1512, in Soignies – after April 24, 1559) was a Franco-Flemish composer and choirmaster of the Renaissance, associated with the ''Grande Chapelle'', the Habsburg imperial chapel, at the end of the reign o ...

and

Jean L'Héritier Jean L'Héritier (Lhéritier, Lirithier, Heritier and other spellings also exist) (c. 1480 – after 1551) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was mainly famous as a composer of motets, and is representative of the generation of compos ...

as a tribute to the

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emperor Charles V - as ''Cantiones selectissimae quatuor vocum, ab eximiis et praestantibus caesareae maiestatis capellae musicis.'' This was the first time Payen had been published, and spread the reputation of Charles' chapel further across Europe.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Salminger, Sigmund 1500s births 1550s deaths German Anabaptists Clergy from Munich German printers German Protestant hymnwriters German Roman Catholic hymnwriters 16th-century hymnwriters