Wannenmacher, Johannes (c. 1485–1551)

Swiss priest and composer. He wrote vocal pieces, of which 26 survive.

Wannenmacher was appointed cantor of the collegiate foundation of St Vincent at Bern in 1510, but left in 1514 after a dispute and went to Germany as canon and cantor at Freiburg, Baden. After a brief return to Switzerland in 1519, when he went to Sion (Valais), he went back to Freiburg, but having come under the influence of the Swiss religious reformer Ulrich Zwingli, he embraced Protestantism in 1530, was tortured and banished, returned to Bern and, finding no employment there, became town clerk at Interlaken.

Works Psalm cxxxvii for three to six voices, motets; German sacred and secular songs.