 Matthäus Waissel

Matthäus Waissel (c. 1540—1602) was a German lutenist, editor of music, and writer.Waissel was from 1573 headmaster of a school at Schippenbeil near Königsberg; he published in that year a volume of lute arrangements of vocal pieces, and in 1592 he issued a collection of German dances for lute, which signaled the decline of German lute tablature as it yielded prominence to the so-called French system.