A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Demantius, Christoph

by Mary Catherine Hamilton

DEMANTIUS, Christoph, composer, born at Reichenberg 1567; was cantor at Zittau about 1596, and in 1607 at Freyberg in Saxony where he died 1643. His works (for list see Fétis) comprise songs sacred and secular, dances, and threnodies, or funeral laments, besides two elementary works, 'Isagoge artis musicae' etc. (Nuremberg 1605, 12th edition Freyberg 1671) and 'Forma musices, gründlicher … Bericht der Singekunst' (Budissin 1592). Four 8-part motets are printed in the Florilegium Portense, and a short 'Domine ad adjuvandum,' à 4, in Proske's 'Musica Divina'—Lib. Vesperarum.

[ M. C. C. ]