Surname
Tiffer
Given Name
Johannes
Role
Choirboy
Dessus
Employee of a court chapel (musician)
Known voice range
Musician
Singer
Soprano
Superius
Active period
1527 - 1527
Workplace
München
Institution
Capella imperialis (Imperium Romanum Sacrum)
Biography
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 ten Discantisten (choirboys) in Ferdinand’s Munich chapel (there was another chapel in Vienna with a largely separate personnel).
Hirzel 1908, p. 155.
Hirzel 1908, p. 155.