Heyden (Heiden, Haiden), Hans
Heyden (Heiden, Haiden), Hans
Heyden (Heiden, Haiden), Hans, German organist, son of Sebald Heyden; b. Nuremberg (baptized), Jan. 15, 1536; d. there (buried), Oct. 22, 1613. He was his father’s successor as organist at St. Sebald Church (1567–71), and the inventor of the “Geigen-Clavicymbel” (“Nurnbergisch Geigenwerk”) in 1575, which he described in Musicale instrumentum reformatum (Nuremberg, 1605; 2nd ed., 1610; Latin tr., 1605, as Commentatio de musicale instrumento).
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