Biography
Friedrich Weißensee (c. 1560 in Schwerstedt, Thüringen – 1622, Altenweddingen bei Magdeburg) was a German composer and Protestant minister. Alongside his contemporaries Christoph Demantius, Michael Praetorius and Melchior Vulpius, he was one of the leading Protestant composers of his time.
In 1590 he was made rector of a Latin school in Gebesee near Erfurt. In 1596 he succeeded Leonhart Schröter as cantor at the Altstädtische Schule in Magdeburg on Schröter's retirement – one of Weißensee's pupils was Daniel Friderici. In 1602 he became a minister in Altenweddingen.
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