Christoph Demantius

Johann Christoph Demantius was a German composer, music theorist, writer and poet. He was an exact contemporary of Monteverdi, and represented a transitional phase in German Lutheran music from the polyphonic Renaissance style to the early Baroque. ^{Christoph Demantius, German composer, poet, and theorist (d. 1643)}

15 December 1567

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