Neusidler, Hans
Neusidler, Newsidler, Neusiedler, Conrad, baptized on 13 February 1541 in Nuremberg, †after 1603 in Augsburg, German composer, lutenist, son of Hans. In 1562, he settled in Augsburg, where he remained until the end of his life. Manuscripts from Donaueschingen (ref. no. G.I.4) contain two of his motet intabulations, in Hainhofer’s Tablature (manuscript, Wolfenbüttel) there are two intradas and 14 arrangements of Protestant songs, and in the manuscript supplement to R. Wyssenbach’s print (Tabulaturbuch, 1550, copy in the Jagiellonian Library, formerly Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, ref. no. Mus. ant. pract. W 510) 3 other such arrangements, two 2-part dances and intabulations of 2 chansons.
Literature: J. Dieckmann Die in deutscher Lautentabulatur überlieferten Tänze des 16. Jahrhunderts, Kassel 1931; O. Wessely Zur Lebensgeschichte von Melchior Neusidler, “Studien zur Musikwissenschaft” XXXVI, 1985; C. Meyer Sources manuscrites en tablature: luth et théorbe. Catalogue descriptif, 2 vols., Baden-Baden 1991; E. Tremmel Die Lautentabulaturbücher Philipp Hainhofers, “Neues musikwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch” III, 1994.