Education
He probably studied under Martin Agricola.
He probably studied under Martin Agricola.
Little is known about his life. From 1555 until his death he was the organist and church-composer at two churches in Hamburg. In 1554 he published a collection of choral works.
In 1566 he published a collection of 200 works by Dutch and German composers under the title Opus musicum excellens et novum - only one of those works (a Te Deum in four parts) is by Praetorius himself, of which only the first part has survived.