Beyer, Johann Samuel 01/01/1669 - 05/09/1744

Johann Samuel Beyer (1669-1744) was a German cantor and composer. He was born in Gotha, worked in Weißenfels and Freiberg, and died in Karlsbad.



He also worked as a so-called musicwriter. As cathedral cantor for the Freiberger Dom he checked the little organ there which had been built between 1718 and 1719 by Gottfried Silbermann for the Freiberger Hospitalkirche (St. John's church).