Nicolaus Vetter

Andreas Nicolaus Vetter (October 1666 – 13 June 1734) was a German organist and composer.

He was born in Herschdorf, Thuringia. He first studied music with G.K. Wecker in Nuremberg and was a student at the Rudolstadt Gymnasium from 1683 to 1688. He then moved to Erfurt to study with Johann Pachelbel, succeeding him as organist of the Predigerkirche when he left for Stuttgart in 1690; during this time, he may have attended the University of Erfurt. He was succeeded by J.H. Buttstedt in July 1691, when he went to Rudolstadt to take up a position as castle organist; he was later honoured with the appointments of Government Advocate, Church Procurator and Master Over The Page Boys.

His surviving compositions are now few, since World War II led to the destruction of all his free organ compositions and a work for chorus and orchestra entitled Zum frohen Empfang Grossherzogs Carl Fürsten Primas. The manuscript Mus.40035 of the Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, gave his name as the composer of variations eight and three of the organ partita on Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr, BWV 771, once attributed to J. S. Bach; he may have been the composer of all seventeen verses. His surviving organ works, which are chorale settings in the tradition of the South German school, appear in the modern editions Orgelchoräle um Joh. Seb. Bach, ed. G. Frotscher (Leipzig, 1937), and Andreas Nicolaus Vetter (1666–1734): Koraalbewerkingen, ed. E. Kooiman (Hilversum, 1989). The manuscripts of many of these works were also lost in World War II.

Sources

• Hugh J. McLean, 'Vetter, (Andreas) Nicolaus', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 2007-06-08), http://www.grovemusic.com/

External links

• Free scores by Nicolaus Vetter in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
• Free scores by Nicolaus Vetter at the International Music Score Library Project

Persondata
Name	Vetter, Nicolaus
Alternative names	Vetter, Andreas Nicolaus
Short description	German organist and composer
Date of birth	October 1666
Place of birth	Herschdorf, Thuringia
Date of death	13 June 1734
Place of death