Sigmund Theophil Staden

{{Short description|German composer}}

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Sigmund Theophil Staden (6 November 1607 – 30 July 1655) was an important early German composer.

Staden was born in Kulmbach in the Principality of Bayreuth, son of Johann Staden, the founder of the so-called Nuremberg school.{{cite book |last1=Eitner |first1=Robert |title=Allgemeine deutsche Biographi |date=1893 |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |page=367 |url=https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00008393/images/index.html?seite=369 |volume=35|access-date=9 May 2022}} Based in Nuremberg, he was the composer of Seelewig (1644), the first German Singspiel. The only other works of his that survive are three Friedens-Gesänge from 1651.