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Composer
A.k.a. Paul Schaeffer
Paul Schaeffer (fl 1617–45) was a German composer. The title-pages of his surviving prints indicate that between 1617 and 1620 he was an instrumentalist among the municipal musicians at Guhrau, Silesia (now Góra, Poland), and that from 1621 he served the city of Breslau in a similar capacity. A work that he wrote for a wedding on 9 May 1645 shows that he was still working then at Breslau, but no music by him can be