Matthias Greitter

Matthias Greitter, also Matthäus Greiter, (ca. 1495 20 December 1550) was a German priest, cantor and composer.

Life

Greitter was born in Aichach. He became priest and cantor at Strasbourg Cathedral. In 1524 he joined the new Reformed Church. In 1538 he accepted a position of music teacher at the Collegium Argentinense (later University of Strasbourg). In 1549 he moved back to the Catholic religion and founded a Catholic school of singing, but he died the following year in Strasbourg, presumably from the plague.

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