Paul Peuerl was a German organist

Organist

An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...

, organ builder, renovator and repairer, and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 of instrumental music.

From November 1601 he was organist in Horn

Horn, Austria

Horn is a small town in the Waldviertel in Lower Austria, Austria and the capital of the district of the same name.2008 Austrian Cup winner SV Horn is the local soccerclub....

 and from late 1609 in Steyr

Steyr

Steyr is a town, located in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria. The town is situated at the confluence of the rivers Steyr and Enns. Steyr is Austria's 12th most populated town and simultaneously the 3rd largest town in Upper Austria....

. He built organs in Steyr, Horn, Enns

Enns (city)

Enns is a city in the Austrian state of Upper Austria, located 281 m above sea level on the river Enns, which forms the border with the state of Lower Austria....

, and Wilhering

Wilhering

Wilhering is a municipality in the district Linz-Land in Upper Austria, Austria. Their slogan is culture and life and for culture they have Cistercian Abbey and the Rococo church, for life they have the nature and woods that are around Wilhering. The Cisterican Abbey was established in the 1146 and...

. Peuerl wrote the earliest published trio sonata

Trio sonata

The trio sonata is a musical form that was popular in the 17th and early 18th centuries.A trio sonata is written for two solo melodic instruments and basso continuo, making three parts in all, hence the name trio sonata...

s outside of Italy. His work on the suite form was for his time significant and influential.

Musicologists began to research his work in 1865. A complete edition was published in 1929.

Works

• Newe Padouan, Intrada, Däntz und Galliarda (1611), the first German ensemble publication to group dances into 4-movement variation suite
  Variation suite
  Variation suite is a musical genre most popular during the early Baroque era. The variation suite consists of two or more movements where the first movement presents a theme and the remaining movements present variations on that theme. Movements in the variation suite are typically dance or...
  
  s, each movement being based on the same material
• Weltspiegel (1613)
• Ettliche lustige Padovanen ..., (1620)
• Gantz Neue Padouanen (published in Nuremburg, 1625)
• 40 dances and 2 canzonas