Crüger, Johannes
(1598–1662)
JOHANNES CRÜGERCRÜGER, JOHANNESJOHANNES CRÜGER [* 1598-† 1662] Through disinclination and an untimely death at age twenty-seven, LIPPIUS did not himself provide the means whereby his conception of the triad could be popularized. Johannes Crüger, both in works for beginning students and in his more rigorous Synopsis musica (1630), served as executant of this important task, bringing to the general musical public and to later generations the essence of LIPPIUS's thought. Yet he did not serve…