Erasmus Widmann
attributed to Johann Georg Mentzel

Erasmus Widmann (1572–1634) was born at Schwäbisch Hall and studied in Tübingen.  His first musical positions were in Eisenerz (1595), Graz (1596), Schwäbisch Hall, and from 1602 Kapellmeister to Count Wolfgang von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim until the count’s death in 1610. Thereafter Widmann was cantor and organist at Rothenburg ob der Tauber.