Seytz, Johannes (…-…). Musician; Singer

Appears as a “clericus” of Maximilian’s chapel in the “Rotulus nominationum Maximiliani I” (c. 1508), fol. 3 (Nº 290), petitioning for a benefice in the Benedictine monastery of Lorch, near Welzheim (diocese of Augsburg). Formerly an alto in Maximilian’s court chapel, Seitz was installed as canon at the cathedral of Konstanz on 28.4.1508, and as choirmaster (“informator choralium”) there on 5.6.1508. He must have left this position for Hechingen, for on 8.12.1514, the altist Johannes Seytz, “priest and cantor in Hechingen,” was presented for the chaplaincy of the altar of St Blasius at the church of the Holy Cross in Konstanz, which was provided with a school benefice and position as succentor. His successor in this position (7.3.1520) was Heinrich Schwenninger. A Johann Seitz was installed as a singer at the Stuttgart court on 2.2.1535, and died there in 1550. See Reichert 1954, p. 110-111.