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Paul Peuerl Life

Peuerl was known as an organ builder, renovator and repairer who built organs in the style known as "Praetorious".

As a musician, he collected a number of instrumental works between 1611 and 1625.

MIDI FILE - Canzona II (1'37'')

In 1613 he composed a volume of songs but Peuerl is most important for being considered the developer of the variation suite.

The suite consisted of a paduana, intrada, dantz, and galliard; the Dantz presented the theme while the paduana was the closest of the three variations to the original theme and the galliard and intrada were more distant.

Interestingly he was the first German to use the Italian canzona of two melodic instruments in combination with a continuo.