Career
By 1611 (his first publication) he resided as cornetto player at the house of Charles, Margrave of Burgau (d1618) at Günzburg, near Augsburg. In 1615 he became an employee of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria (Munich) as a cornettist, where he wrote his best known collection Musicali melodie (1621). lieutenant contains 14 instrumental canzonas of one to six parts with continuo, and 14 motets.