Johann Melchior Gletle (July 1626 – 6 September 1683) was a Swiss organist, Kapellmeister and composer.

Life

Gletle was born in Bremgarten. He was a prolific composer of church music - masses, psalms, motets, and also several pieces for the tromba marina.[1][2] He died, aged 57, in Augsburg.

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References

  1. ^ Willi Apel (ed.): Harvard Dictionary of Music (1969), p. 819: "The 17th century produced Johann Melchior Gletle (1626-84), a prolific composer of Masses, psalms, motets, and also some pieces for *tromba marina".
  2. ^ Cecil Adkins, Alis Dickinson, Williams Buck: A Trumpet by Any Other Name. A History of the Trumpet Marine, vol. 1 (1991): "The most prolific of the Germanic composers for trumpet marine was Johann Gletle, who included with the seventeen secular part songs of his Musica genialis thirty-six unaccompanied duets and two trio sonatas for ..."
  3. ^ Verlag Les Cahiers De Tourdion Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine

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