Sigmund Hemmel (1520–1565) was a German composer, tenor, and Kapellmeister in Stuttgart,

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. He was said to have used a "large polished slate stone for composing." He was director of the

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from 1552 to 1554. He is perhaps best known for his '' Das Ganz Psalter Davids'', a "collection of four-voiced settings of chorales with melody in the tenor voice according to the old custom" published posthumously by Osiander in

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in 1569.

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1520 births 1565 deaths German classical composers Musicians from Stuttgart 16th-century German people Renaissance composers German male classical composers {{Germany-composer-stub