Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns or Bruhns (11 February 1637 – 13 March 1718) was a German composer and music director in Hamburg.

Brauns was born in Lollfuß, Schleswig. In 1682 he succeeded Nicolaus Adam Strungk

Nicolaus Adam Strungk

Nicolaus Adam Strungk was a German composer and violinist.-Life:...

 in charge of the Hamburger Ratsmusik

Hamburger Ratsmusik

The Hamburger Ratsmusik was the name, in German, for the Hamburg city government musical establishment of Hamburg during the baroque period. Ratsmusik was a generic term to distinguish from Hausmusik, domestic music making, during the Hanseatic period.It is also the name of a modern ensemble for...

, later also taking on the charge of St. Mary's Cathedral. He died in Hamburg. His Johannes-Passion (1702) and Markus-Passion (1705) were long mistakenly attributed to Reinhard Keiser

Reinhard Keiser

Reinhard Keiser was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas, and in 1745 Johann Adolph Scheibe considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann , but his work was largely forgotten for many...

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