Dear Bernd, here is what the New Grove dictionary says about him. I
I see that the people in Amsterdam understand me :-)) thank you! **
From this site
http://www.lexicus.de/Seiten/mv/Guestrower_Hofkapelle/1.htm we learn that Benedikt received "1 Gulden 7 Schillinge" [not 1 Gulden 6 Schillinge as some socialist musicologists wrote ;-) ] on the 26. August 1562 , when he played for the Herzog of Mecklenburg (Ulrich III. ?). The Fronimo list keeps a .zip file with most of the pieces from the 1556 book in, eh, Spanish tablature - I mean inverted Italian... The original is in German tablature. best wishes B. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
