Vicentz Rupffenbart (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1621) was a Calvinist schoolmaster in Purla, Laussnitz and an amateur composer. His best known work is the "Calvinist dance" ''Calvinistischer Vortantz, welcher in Ober Oesterreich geschmittet, zu Prag in Böhaim angefangen, und wider die Papisten allenthalben gehalten worden ist.'' (Genff in Hollandt: Niclas Gumperle, 1621). Vierstimmiger homophoner Satz (SATB) mit 37 Strophen. This is recorded on ''Friedens-Seufftzer und Jubel-Geschrey'' - Music for the

Peace of Westphalia The Peace of Westphalia (german: Westfälischer Friede, ) is the collective name for two peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. They ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and brought pea ...

. Weser-Renaissance Ensemble Bremen dir.

Manfred Cordes Manfred Cordes (born 1953) is a German conductor of early music, musicologist and teacher. He is professor at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and was its rector from 2007 to 2012. Publications * ''Die lateinischen Motetten des Iacobus Regnar ...

, CPO.

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German Baroque composers German Calvinist and Reformed Christians Musicians from Saxony 17th-century German people German male classical composers People from Bautzen (district) German schoolteachers {{composer-stub