
Praetorius, Prätorius, Prætorius was the name of several musicians and scholars in Germany. In Germany of the 16th and 17th centuries it became a fashion that educated people named `Schulze` or `Schultheiß` or `Richter`, which means `judge`, put their name into the Latin language as `Praetorius`, referring to former officials called ...
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(Michael Schultheiss) , 1571–1621, German composer, organist, and theorist.
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