Sigmund Hemmel

Sigmund Hemmel (1520–1565) was a German composer, tenor, and Kapellmeister in Stuttgart, Württemberg. He was said to have used a "large polished slate stone for composing."^[1] He was director of the Hofkapelle Stuttgart 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 Tubingen in 1569.^[2]

References

1. Owens, Jessie Ann (19 November 1998). Composers at Work: The Craft of Musical Composition 1450–1600. Oxford University Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-19-512904-5. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
2. Glover, Raymond F. (1 February 1995). The Hymnal 1982 Companion. Church Publishing, Inc. p. 553. ISBN 978-0-89869-143-6. Retrieved 11 July 2012.