Dietrich Stoefken

Dietrich Stoefken (also spelled Stoeffken; active in the early seventeenth century) was a German organist and composer whose career is closely associated with Hamburg, one of the most important urban centres of organ culture in northern Europe at the turn of the seventeenth century. Although precise birth and death dates are not securely fixed in the commonly accessible reference layer, Stoefken is documented as an organist at Hamburg’s principal parish churches