Johannes Kessel

Johann Kessel (c.1620–1683) was a German church musician of the seventeenth century, remembered through the manuscript survival of his sacred vocal music. Active in the Augsburg region, he belonged to the generation that shaped south-German church repertory in the decades after the Thirty Years’ War. His works—preserved mainly in ecclesiastical manuscripts—reflect the practical devotional music of the period rather than the printed, court-centred tradition