Lechner, Leonhard (c. 1553-1606)

Austrian composer. He was music director to Count Eitel Friedrich of Hohenzollern at Hechingen 1584-85 and in 1595 was appointed to a similar post at the court of Württemberg at Stuttgart, Germany.

After studying with Orlande de Lassus in the court chapel at Munich, he became a schoolmaster at Nuremberg in 1570. In 1579 he began to publish a revised edition of Lassus's works.

Works Masses, motets, Magnificat, psalms, introits, wedding motet for the Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony; sacred and 160 secular German songs for two-five voices in seven published books; St John Passion (1594).