Hassler stu­died mu­sic un­der his fa­ther, and with Andrea Ga­bri­ele in Ven­ice, Ita­ly. He served as or­gan­ist for Count Oc­tav­i­an Fug­ger of the famous Fug­ger family in Augs­burg, Ger­ma­ny; at the Frau­en­kirche in Nürn­berg; and for Prince Christ­ian II of Sax­o­ny at Dresden. His works in­clude:

• Cantiones Sacrae, 1591
• Lustgarten neuer teutsch­er Ge­säng, Bal­let­ti, Gal­liar­den und In­tra­den, 1601
• Neue Deutsche Ge­sang, 1596
• Kirchengesänge, Psalmen und Geistliche Lied­er, 1608

Sources

Music

1. Passion Chorale