One of the most remarkable tales in the field of early keyboard music concerns the music of Heinrich Scheidemann. This book shows how Scheidemann was a central personality in the rich musical life of Hamburg and stood on friendly terms with colleagues such as Johannes Praetorius, Ulrich Cernitz, Thomas Selle, Johann Schop and Johann Rist.

One of the most remarkable tales of recent resurrections in the field of early keyboard music concerns the music of Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595-1663). Long considered a minor master overshadowed by such figures as his teacher Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck or his fellow student Samuel Scheidt, a number of major source discoveries made in the second half of the twentieth century - the most important one being the discovery of the Zellerfield tablatures - have gradually raised his stature towards what it should now be, namely that of the paramount figure in North German organ music of the first...