Tobias Michael (13 June 1592, in

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– 26 June 1657, in

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) was a German composer and cantor of the

Thomasschule St. Thomas School, Leipzig (german: Thomasschule zu Leipzig; la, Schola Thomana Lipsiensis) is a co-educational and public boarding school in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It was founded by the Augustinians in 1212 and is one of the oldest schools ...

in Leipzig from 1631 until his death. He updated

Johann Hermann Schein Johann Hermann Schein (20 January 1586 – 19 November 1630) was a German composer of the early Baroque era. He was Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1615 to 1630. He was one of the first to import the early Italian stylistic innovations into German ...

's ''Cantional'' in 1645. He was son of the Flemish

Rogier Michael Rogier Michael von Bergen (ca. 1553 probably in Bergen-op-Zoom – after middle 1623 in Dresden) was a Franco-Flemish composer, singer and Kapellmeister of the late Renaissance. Life and work Michael came to Vienna as a child with his father S ...

(1552–1619).

Works, editions and recordings

Little of his music has been preserved.The Leipzig Thomaner Chor Richard Petzoldt – 1962 – "Of the works of Tobias Michael not much has been preserved," * ''Ich bin gewiss, dass Weder Tod noch Leben'' on ''Geistliche Werke von Thomaskantoren'' Thomanerchor Leipzig, dir.

Hans-Joachim Rotzsch Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (25 April 1929 – 25 September 2013) was a German choral conductor, conducting the Thomanerchor from 1972 until 1991 as the fifteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He was also a tenor and an academic teacher. Bi ...

Capriccio 1989 * settings of Psalm 116 in

Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen ''Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen'' ("Fear of Hell and Peace of the Soul") is a collection of sixteen settings of Psalm 116 in German, "Das ist mir lieb" (), commissioned by the Jena merchant Burckhard Grossmann in 1616 and eventually publis ...

by Tobias and his father

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Michael, Tobias Thomaskantors 1592 births 1657 deaths