German composer. He became court Kantor to Duke Johann Philipp of Saxony at Altenburg. His most important work is the Complementum und Dritter Theil Fest- und Aposteltägiger Evangelischer Sprüche, one of a large number of publications of occasional motets from the period around 1600 whose contents were used liturgically in the Lutheran Mass in place of readings.
Source: Walter Blankenburg/Dorothea Schröder: Johann Christenius quoted from Grove Music Online accessed 22 January 2010
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