부산대학교 도서관

(b Teuchern, nr Weissenfels, Nov 10, 1679; d Lübeck, April 5, 1732). German organist and composer. The son of Christian Schiefferdecker, Kantor, organist and teacher at Teuchern, he came of a long line of ministers and church musicians active in Weissenfels and Zeitz from the middle of the 17th century. He attended the Leipzig Thomasschule, 1692–7; later, while a university student in Leipzig, two of his operas were staged. In 1702 he became accompanist to the Hamburg Opera, where he collaborated with G. Bronner and J. Mattheson on Victor, Hertzog der Normannen, which was performed to celebrate the coronation of Queen Anne. His Alaricus and a revision of Regnerus, originally written for Weissenfels, were staged in the same year. On 23 January 1707 Schiefferdecker succeeded Buxtehude as organist and parish clerk of the Marienkirche, Lübeck, after acting as his deputy for a year. In accordance with local custom, he married his predecessor's daughter, Anna Margreta (his senior by four years), on ...