Daniel Vetter

Daniel Vetter (1657/58 – 7 February 1721) was an organist and composer of the German Baroque era. Life Born in Breslau, Vetter became a pupil of Werner Fabricius in Leipzig. When Fabricius died in 1679, Vetter succeeded him as organist of the St. Nicholas Church. Some time before 1695 he wrote a melody for , who at the time was cantor in Breslau, and to whom he was befriended. That hymn tune, Zahn No. 6634, was sung at the cantor’s funeral in Breslau, in 1695. Vetter published the first volume of his in 1709. From 1710 to 1716 he supervised the construction of the new organ built by in the church of the university of Leipzig, an organ that was tested in 1717 over a three-day period by Johann Sebastian Bach in Vetter’s presence. Meanwhile, the second volume of his Musicalische Kirch- und Hauß-Ergötzlichkeit was published in 1713. It contained a four-part setting of the Zahn 6634 melody, to the text of Caspar Neumann’s “Liebster Gott, wann werd ich sterben” hymn. Vetter remained organist of St. Nicholas in Leipzig until his death in 1721. * The second volume, containing 91 more settings of chorale melodies, was published in 1713. The collection contains settings of 117 hymn tunes: mo