Adam Krieger

Adam Krieger (born January 7, 1634, Driesen, Pomerania [now Drezdenko, Poland]—died June 30, 1666, Dresden, Saxony [Germany]) was a composer who is considered the most varied and original master of the German Baroque song. Krieger was educated at Leipzig, where he was organist at St. Nicholas church. From 1657 he was in Dresden as court organist to the elector of Saxony. His surviving compositions are mostly secular, although in his lifetime his sacred works were...