Hieronymus Praetorius

Hieronymus Praetorius
Born10 August 1560
Died27 January 1629(1629-01-27) (aged 68)
Hamburg, Germany
NationalityNorth German
Occupation(s)Composer and organist
ChildrenJacob

Hieronymus Praetorius (10 August 1560 – 27 January 1629) was a Northern German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque whose polychoral motets in 8 to 20 voices are intricate and vividly expressive. Some of his organ music survives in the Visby Orgel-Tabulatur, which dates from 1611. (He was not related to the prolific Michael Praetorius, known as a theorist and for Terpsichore, but the large Praetorius family tree produced many distinguished musicians during the 16th and 17th centuries.)