Michael, Tobias 06/23/1592 - 07/06/1657

The son of the Franco-Flemish composer Rogier Michael (1552-1619). He was the brother of the organists Christian Michael (around 1593-1637) and Samuel (around 1597-1632). Tobias Michael was a chapel singer at the Dresden court from 1601. After attending ''Schulpforta'' from 1609, Tobias Michael studied theology in Leipzig and Wittenberg. In 1619, he became Kapellmeister to the Princes of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen in the Trinitatis Church in Sondershausen. After a devastating town fire in 1621, in which the church was also completely destroyed, Michael was appointed town clerk.
In 1631, he succeeded Johann Hermann Schein as cantor at the ''Thomasschule'' in Leipzig. His successor there was Sebastian Knüpfer in 1657.
Tobias Michael is probably only known to connoisseurs of the German late Renaissance. Nevertheless, his German-language "sacred madrigals" can be compared with the works of Schein or Heinrich Schütz in terms of drama and expressiveness. Two volumes of motets and sacred concertos by Michael have survived under the title "Musikalische Seelenlust" (1634-1637) as well as occasional works for six to eight voices (mainly concertante motets for weddings and funerals). The style corresponded to the Venetian School, which was widespread in Germany at the time.
Tobias Michael composed the motet for his own funeral several years before his death.
According to Wikipedia

Note: Translated from a German version of Wikipedia into English.