Artist Info: Samuel Mareschall

Samuel Mareschall (born around the 22nd May 1554 in Tournai; died between the 1st June and 1. November 1640 in Basel) was a Franco-Flemish composer, organist, singer and teacher of the late Renaissance.

No information has been passed on about the ancestry, youth and education of Samuel Mareschall. For the years 1576 and 1577, he enrolled at the University of Basel to study. He became organist at Basel Cathedral in 1577 in place of Gregor Meyer, who had been the first Protestant organist there; in the same year [read more...]