Sebastian Anton Scherer

Sebastian Anton Scherer was a German composer and organist of the Baroque era.

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Sebastian Anton Scherer, a distinguished organist, flourished in Ulm around the mid-seventeenth century. While the exact dates and locations of his birth and death, as well as the identity of his teacher, remain unknown, his published works attest to his merit, according to Biographie universelle des musiciens (1866). He served as the second organist of Ulm Cathedral, a title indicated on one of his works printed in 1664, after an initial period without employment. His compositions include Musica sacra (Ulm, 1655), comprising masses, psalms, and motets for three to five voices with instruments. He also published two books of organ tablature in 1664, titled Tabulatura in cymbalo et organo intonationum brevium per octo tonos and Partitura 8 toccatorum usui apta cum vel sine pedali. These two books were later combined under a general title that noted their suitability “for modern sweetness” and their publication “at the request of many,” as detailed in Biographie universelle (1866). Scherer himself engraved these works on copper plates, and their form, with right-hand parts on a six-line staff and left-hand parts on an eight-line staff, mirrors the practice of celebrated organists like Merulo and Frescobaldi. His later instrumental works include Sonaten fur zwey Violinen und Violda gamba (Ulm, 1680) and undated Suiten fur die Laute (Augsburg).