Surname
Seebacher
Given Name
Peter
Variant Name
Petrus
Petter
Seepacher
Role
Basse contre
Bassus
Employee of a court chapel (musician)
Known voice range
Musician
Singer
Active period
1519 - 1527
Workplace
Innsbruck
München
Institution
Capella imperialis (Imperium Romanum Sacrum)
Biography
Innsbruck, Imperial chapel, 1519-1520. Listed as one of the six Bassisten of the Imperial chapel in the household inventory made in January 1519, soon after the death of Maximilian I (19 January 1519), and in the list made in January 1520, soon before the dissolution of the chapel.
Munich, Imperial chapel of Ferdinand I, 1527. Listed as in the first inventory of the household of Ferdinand I, made on 1 January 1527 (Munich, Staatsarchiv [formerly Kreisarchiv] Faszikel H. L. Freising 317), as one of the three Bassisten in Ferdinand’s Munich chapel (there was another chapel in Vienna with a largely separate personnel).
Fellner and Kretschmayer 1907, p. 145; Hirzel 1908, p. 153-154; Koczirz 1931, p. 532 (from Registratur de anno 1519 bis 1520, Vienna, Hofkammerarchiv Sign. 46 [olim D 131]).
Munich, Imperial chapel of Ferdinand I, 1527. Listed as in the first inventory of the household of Ferdinand I, made on 1 January 1527 (Munich, Staatsarchiv [formerly Kreisarchiv] Faszikel H. L. Freising 317), as one of the three Bassisten in Ferdinand’s Munich chapel (there was another chapel in Vienna with a largely separate personnel).
Fellner and Kretschmayer 1907, p. 145; Hirzel 1908, p. 153-154; Koczirz 1931, p. 532 (from Registratur de anno 1519 bis 1520, Vienna, Hofkammerarchiv Sign. 46 [olim D 131]).