Johannes Spangenberg (1484-1550) was a German Protestant school and church music reformer. He was born in Hardegsen, near Göttingen. As a teacher he wrote and edited numerous writings and collected church hymns for daily use with his son Cyriakus. In Eineck he occupied himself even more profoundly with the study of hymns. With his Cantiones ecclesiasticae (1545) he expanded the Liedpredigt (preaching through song) to include the entire liturgical year. The basis of this were, however, mostly pre-Reformation hymns.
